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Promoted Snapshots
I am running an RN526X with firmware 6.6.1. After a lot of help from this community I got the snapshots working correctly. My system takes a daily snapshot of all of the shares (except the Home fol...
dschwartzer wrote:
How do I know which are daily, weekly and monthly?
They are all the same. One of the daily snapshots isn't deleted (becoming the weekly one), and one of the weekly ones isn't deleted (becoming the monthly).
dschwartzer wrote:
Any other ideas?
Perhaps manually prune the really one ones, and wait about a week to see if the February snapshots are pruned. The processing might not clean up old missed snapshots.
You could easily switch to custom snapshots - there is no thinning, but there is a setting to prevent needless snapshots (when there are no changes to the share contents). You can limit total retention, which is something that you can't do with the smart snapshots.
Is the system powered down at night?
The snapshots occurr at midnight and the system powers down at 1:00 am.
dschwartzer wrote:
The snapshots occurr at midnight and the system powers down at 1:00 am.
You should be ok then, so I am a bit puzzled. Do you have disk spindown enabled? If so, maybe try disabling it from 12-1 am.
Personally I use custom snapshots, so I can limit retention.
I do have spin down enabled but have it set to spin up for backups. That said, I will try to disable spin down between 12 - 1.
If that is the issue, will the system still do the necessary promotions of the snapshots it has or will they be ignored because the time has passed to promote them?
Also, I am not opposed to using Custom settings. Can you provide a suggestion on what is working for you?
Regards,
David
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