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RationaleIT
Sep 18, 2017Follower
Incorrect Capacity for Time Machine on my RN2120 v2
I can't seem to find a solution anywhere, at least no posts with working links. The unit has about 8TB usable storage. I had 5GB reserved for a private Time Machine, which was nearly filled up, along with 3 for the shared Time Machine. About 5TB were used for the Time Machine and other items. Now, if I navigate to Time Machine settings, it says only 3TB are available, so the 5TB is showing up as used data, when it's supposed to be the Time Machine. I tried updating FW, rebooting, but the software won't recognize that Time Machine data as being Time Machine data, so it'll only let me use the remaining 3. Time Machine on the iMac shows that 0 of 3TB are available for backups, but before this, it said 500GB of 5TB were available. It's annoying me and I really don't want to disable/enable Time Machine to wipe my existing sparbundle file since I will likely need to access the old time machine backups in the future. Any ideas anyone? I appreciate it!
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- Marty_MNETGEAR Employee Retired
Hello RationaleIT,
We’d greatly appreciate hearing your feedback letting us know if the information we provided has helped resolve your issue or if you need further assistance. If your issue is now resolved, we encourage you to mark the appropriate reply as the “Accept as Solution” or post what resolved it and mark it as solution so others can be confident in benefiting from the solution.The Netgear community looks forward to hearing from you and being a helpful resource in the future!
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Marty_M
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- Marty_MNETGEAR Employee Retired
Hello RationaleIT,
It does appear that you are missing out some space allotted for your private time machine. I would recommend to perform a Volume balance or Volume scrub and check if that would help with the concern. You may check this link for additional information.
Welcome to the community!
Regards,
Marty_M
NETGEAR Community Team
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