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Deleting Redundant Time Machine Backup
I noticed that my NAS was low on space, but the numbers didn't add up, so I checked the file structure and notice there is approximately 1TB of timemachine backup that was for a machine that is no lo...
cwsyeh wrote:
Log in as root using the NAS admin password.
This worked for me, now I can see the list, but how delete the folder? I assume rm will not work?
# btrfs subvolume delete -c /path
using the fully qualified folder name (/data/... )
The -c tells btrfs to wait for the deletion to complete. You can omit that if you want.
cwsyeh wrote:
Log in as root using the NAS admin password.
This worked for me, now I can see the list, but how delete the folder? I assume rm will not work?
# btrfs subvolume delete -c /path
using the fully qualified folder name (/data/... )
The -c tells btrfs to wait for the deletion to complete. You can omit that if you want.
Thanks, StephenB ! I think it's working - initially I thought only the folder was gone and none of the space was reclaimed, but I think it's now slowly releasing space...I think...
Will come back in a day or so to confirm and accept the solution!
cwsyeh wrote:Thanks, StephenB ! I think it's working - initially I thought only the folder was gone and none of the space was reclaimed, but I think it's now slowly releasing space...I think...
Will come back in a day or so to confirm and accept the solution!
So I checked the drive just then, and it has reclaimed all the space that was wasted! Now I have another 1.3TB available! Thanks!
cwsyeh wrote:
So I checked the drive just then, and it has reclaimed all the space that was wasted! Now I have another 1.3TB available!
Great!. If you've never run a balance, then you might want to do that (it's run from the volume settings wheel).
You can set up a volume maintenance schedule there - personally I run each of the maintenance tasks (balance, scrub, defrag, disk test) once every three months. Balance in particular can take a long time if you've never run it, but that will speed up if you run it regularly.
Cool, I will set it to run tonight!
StephenB wrote:
cwsyeh wrote:So I checked the drive just then, and it has reclaimed all the space that was wasted! Now I have another 1.3TB available!
Great!. If you've never run a balance, then you might want to do that (it's run from the volume settings wheel).
You can set up a volume maintenance schedule there - personally I run each of the maintenance tasks (balance, scrub, defrag, disk test) once every three months. Balance in particular can take a long time if you've never run it, but that will speed up if you run it regularly.
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