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ReadyNAS 104 out of memory 300 firmware 6.9.2
hi everyone i have a readynas 104 - software ver is 6.9.2 - hdd 4 x 2tb drives. I had a power cut 3 nights ago and ever since that night my nasbox activity light is flashing like a **bleep**. ...
Hi
System Fixed!
Firstly to mdgm THANKS for your time in trying to help me i really appreciate it..:)
It seems that the snapshots were the cause of the "out of memory error" I didn't realise that the system was taking snapshots everyday and keeping them for upto 3 years, the oldest one was dated 2014.
I have a backup of my data and could have done a factory reset but i wanted to try and fix this first.
The fix:
Due to the power cut this forced the system to do a rescan and coz of there being loads of snapshots the system run out of memory. I managed to delete some before the system hung again and noticed that as there were less snapshots the system was running for longer, so i kept rebooting and deleteing snapshots until i got the system to a state where i could delete almost all of them. After reboot the system started to behave and I went through and disabled all snapshots from my shares. However there were some snapshots that seemed to be orphaned and i could not delete them but the system was now stable but running very slow. So i did a OS Reinstall from the boot menu as suggested by mdgm and now the system appears to be stable , runnuing a proper speeds AND i was able to delete all the remaining snapshots which gave me back 1TB of disk space!! I have done 5 reboots as a test and everything is running normal ,phew!! I have turned off all snapshots, quotas and bitrot protection and hopefully it won't happen again.
I hope this helps someone who is having similar trouble.
FYI to everyone:
MAKE SURE YOU HAVE A BACKUP OF YOUR DATA INCASE YOU HAVE TO DO A FACTORY RESET! I WAS LUCKY!!!!
Thanks again to a great supportive community and remember,
"Together we are Dynamite!"
grats
Melly Mem
Hi
No i have not done anything yet, Do you want me to try an OS reinstall? What are quotas?
might be worth mentioning that I also had a lot of orphaned Snapshots that i couldn't delete from the snapshot manager before this happened, do you think that might have something to do with it?
Thanks againg for looking into this
Hi
System Fixed!
Firstly to mdgm THANKS for your time in trying to help me i really appreciate it..:)
It seems that the snapshots were the cause of the "out of memory error" I didn't realise that the system was taking snapshots everyday and keeping them for upto 3 years, the oldest one was dated 2014.
I have a backup of my data and could have done a factory reset but i wanted to try and fix this first.
The fix:
Due to the power cut this forced the system to do a rescan and coz of there being loads of snapshots the system run out of memory. I managed to delete some before the system hung again and noticed that as there were less snapshots the system was running for longer, so i kept rebooting and deleteing snapshots until i got the system to a state where i could delete almost all of them. After reboot the system started to behave and I went through and disabled all snapshots from my shares. However there were some snapshots that seemed to be orphaned and i could not delete them but the system was now stable but running very slow. So i did a OS Reinstall from the boot menu as suggested by mdgm and now the system appears to be stable , runnuing a proper speeds AND i was able to delete all the remaining snapshots which gave me back 1TB of disk space!! I have done 5 reboots as a test and everything is running normal ,phew!! I have turned off all snapshots, quotas and bitrot protection and hopefully it won't happen again.
I hope this helps someone who is having similar trouble.
FYI to everyone:
MAKE SURE YOU HAVE A BACKUP OF YOUR DATA INCASE YOU HAVE TO DO A FACTORY RESET! I WAS LUCKY!!!!
Thanks again to a great supportive community and remember,
"Together we are Dynamite!"
grats
Melly Mem
MellyMem wrote:
I have turned off all snapshots, quotas and bitrot protection and hopefully it won't happen again.
Note that if you use the custom snapshot settings, you can set retention - so you won't have snapshots that never go away.
I have mine set to 3 months for most shares - which gives me the benefit of the feature. Though the amount of space needed depends on how you use the NAS, for me the snapshot space remains about 200 GB.
I never noticed that feature to be honest, sometimes "you dont see the wood for the trees".
Thanks for pointing that out mate you are very kind. As I am the only person who uses the nasbox , there's no fear of anyone else deleting stuff, or messing things up, so the need of a snapshot is quite low to non exsistant. Ah! but the famous words come to mind:
" i don't need a back up", "why do i need a firewall, i don't have anything hackers want". LOL. So i think i will take advantage of the feature coz u never know. :).
Thanks again for pointing it out
M Squared
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