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Deleting a file or folder from ALL snapshots.
I have just moved most of my collection of photos from one folder to another on my PC, as part of my recent 'tidy' project. The PC is backed up regularly to the ReadyNAS system, which does snapshots ...
Certainly I confirmed this on the NAS today (see below).readysecure1985 wrote: Snapshots are read-only, not read-write. Therefore, once a snapshot is taken, it's read-only from that point on.
btrfs has a way to turn snapshots read-write, but doing so will not be supported by NETGEAR and is at your own risk.
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions ... t-writable
What I find interesting is that you say that is what we should NOT be doing, and then show us how to do it :o.
I'm not a Linux expert, so would not be going down that route anyway.
It's nice to know that someone else might find the facility I am suggesting useful.btaroli wrote:
But on another Linux box, I find all my snapshots are by default read-write. Need to see if I can default that the other way. Given how these are created, they really shouldn't be modifiable. Though it might be handy if some were.
I double checked today and No the snapshots are NOT deletable from the PC, they only appear to be deleted.btaroli wrote: So, BaJohn, I suspect that whatever you are seeing is not coming from the NAS... perhaps something running on the PC is creating those folders you see?
When viewing on the PC, the properties are 'full access' to everyone and if you highlight and delete, it asks "do you want to permanently delete this file - Yes or No"?. When I click yes, the screen refreshes with the file shown as deleted from the snapshot folder. No other messages about it did not happen, or about needing authority or anything.
It seems to me that the PC (Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit) and the NAS (RN516) are NOT talking to each other in the same language, as the NAS knows I cannot delete the snapshot file, BUT the PC thinks it can.
Wierd ay, perhaps it's a case of "Can't see the wood for the B... Trees."
Until a few months ago, I knew nothing about NAS boxes and I am not a Linux expert, so I cannot answer your question on how it was accomplished. I don't even know if it is meant to work that way. All I know (in this regard) is that my A: drive is setup as a share on the NAS box and I can see my data and a snapshot for each share. Within the snapshots are dated folders and files can be deleted from there. I didn't think this was NOT supposed to happen. Perhaps I was naïve in expecting data that was put there from the PC to be able to be deleted from the PC. Seemed a reasonable expectation at the time. If you can explain how I get an image into this post, I will send an image which shows file properties with 'full control' for everyone against a typical file on the NAS, viewed from my PC. I obviously slice tomatoes different to everyone else.
btaroli wrote:
BaJohn wrote: ... I have been deleting these from one snapshot at a time, by hand accessing the NAS from my PC. ...
So if you have been somehow creating snapshots of some kind and modifying them, how are you accomplishing that? I haven't tried using SMB for snapshot access, but I'm wondering if the apparent file permissions suggest it can do something it can't, appear to let you do it, but never really commit that change... because that subvolume (for the snapshot) is indeed read-only.
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