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AndyEd
Aspirant
Jan 11, 2016

Deleting Snapshots - ReadyNAS102

Hi Everyone,   I noticed that i was running out of disk space on my ReadyNAS, and when i checked i found that Snapshots were taking up over 2TB.     I went into the settings for that folder,...
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mdgm-ntgr
NETGEAR Employee Retired
Jan 18, 2016

In your case the problem was different erldumlao. It seems that deleting one of your snapshots might have failed for some unknown reason.

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mdgm-ntgr
NETGEAR Employee Retired
Jan 19, 2016

 erldumlao, please run a balance on your volume and then once that has completed run a defrag.

I would suggest scheduling a defrag and balance to run weekly (at different times). You should schedule these to run at times when the NAS is being used lightly.

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