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Zippyduda
Aug 19, 2021Aspirant
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-...
- Aug 20, 2021
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.
Zippyduda
Aug 19, 2021Aspirant
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
- StephenBAug 20, 2021Guru - Experienced User
Zippyduda wrote:
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
Try making a manual snapshot, and see if it shows up.
- ZippydudaAug 20, 2021Aspirant
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.
- ZippydudaAug 20, 2021Aspirant
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