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Not seeing option to enable snapshots
On my ReadyNAS RN104 (firmware 6.10..5 Hotfix 1) I do not see any option to enable or disable Snapshots in Share Properties. https://kb.netgear.com/23166/How-do-I-view-and-change-the-properties-of-a-shared-folder-on-my-ReadyNAS-OS-6-storage-system says there should be an "Allow snapshot access" button but that is not present.
I've also noticed there are no weekly snapshots happening even though the Shares are set to run them every week.
Is there anywhere (e.g. config files) on the NAS itself via SSH that I should be checking disabled settings?
Zippyduda wrote:
Looks like when I go to enable quotas on a Share it gives me the attached message about quotas being disabled on the volumes.
Leave quotas off on the shares - unless you want to limit the amount of storage in the share for some reason.
Quota on the volume doesn't do what you think it does. It improves the btrfs "accounting" so that the file system has more detailed knowledge of how the space is being used. If you want to see the amount of snapshot space, you do need to enable quota on the volume settings wheel. I do want to see those details, so I have volume quota turned on, but share quotas turned off.
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Zippyduda wrote:
On my ReadyNAS RN104 (firmware 6.10..5 Hotfix 1) I do not see any option to enable or disable Snapshots in Share Properties. https://kb.netgear.com/23166/How-do-I-view-and-change-the-properties-of-a-shared-folder-on-my-ReadyNAS-OS-6-storage-system says there should be an "Allow snapshot access" button but that is not present.
That KB is old and appears outdated. You disable taking snapshots by setting the schedule to "never". And of course you can manually delete any old snapshots you want to remove.
BTW, checking "allow snapshot access" also makes the snapshots writable. I recommend not checking that box. You can still access the snapshots from Windows by right-clicking on the file, and looking at previous versions.
Not sure why yours don't appear to be being created. How full is your data volume?
My data volume has 66% free as I recently added 2 x 4TB disks (RAID 5)
Just to clarify, the UI is correct as I can see in Windows there are only 2 snapshots (1 for the Pictures Share and 1 for the Videos Share) and both are from 2018
So it looks like manual snapshots are working, just not the automatic ones on a weekly basis.
I've noticed when either turning off "Allow snapshot access" (as you advised) or changing from "Smart" Snapshot Management to "Custom" I briefly see the yellow Snapshot part but then it disappears after applying changes to the Share snapshot settings.
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