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Clear deleted files from N102
I'm relatively new to using a NAS device. I have an N102 set up as Raid 1 with 3 TB of storage. AFter about 12 months use the UI reported only about 400 MB of space left across all volumes and i deci...
Have now worked my way through all 10 shares and cleared all snapshots. Resulted in a dramatic increase in free space - an extra 2 TB. These snapshots had been accumulating over the past 2 years. I will have to assume that the deleted files went into the snapshots although i can't really figure out how that would have worked.
I've now been through and turned off snapshot generation from all but one of the shares - they were set to run daily, which is complete overkill for the content. I also have an external 3 TB usb drive connected and that is set to backup overnight 24/7. In effect it is a 2nd mirror to the raid array and i think it gives adequate recovery capabilities for what i want as most of the data is archival and static in content (videos etc)
As i now have plenty of capacity I will go with that solution for now.
Thanks for steering me in the right direction.
THank you. That's very helpful. I've removed just two snapshots for 2012 from one share without any impact on free space. I will continue with the other 9 shares for each year 2012-2014 and see what happens to the total free space.
protem48 wrote:
THank you. That's very helpful. I've removed just two snapshots for 2012 from one share without any impact on free space. I will continue with the other 9 shares for each year 2012-2014 and see what happens to the total free space.
When you are done, you might also need to do a balance.
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