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ReadyNAS Duo keeps duplicating files, disk always full
My ReadyNAS is continuously duplicating files stored inside a share, creating a new directory and filling it with all the files from that share, iterating the procedure in an infinite number of subdi...
orsobubu wrote:
Hi FramerV and StephenB, I disconnected the ReadyNAS from the network, and the duplication stopped; when I reconnected it, the duplication started again.
It sure sounds like something external.
Options are
(a) do a factory reset, rebuilding the NAS from scratch. Then restore the data from a backup. If it is internal, that should fix it.
(b) spend more time troubleshooting when connected to the network.
You could turn off all sharing protocols for the share (CIFS, NFS, Rsync, AFP, http), and see if the behavior stops. If it does, re-enable one at a time.
You could also change network access to read-only.
Hi FramerV, thank you for the attention, I was getting the informations you required
I want to point out that the Nas, without any intervention by the operator and without any backup job being setted, autonomously keeps copying infinite levels of subdirs of pre-existing files until the disk is full
the logs are only from the last days, because I upgraded the firmware prior to seek help in this forum
have a nice day.
I'm wondering - if you disconnect it from the network for a while (doing a direct connect procedure instead), does the problem continue?
Also, is this happening in all shares, or just one share?
Hi StephenB, I did what you recommended and I'm waiting for the result in the next days, thx!
Hi orsobubu,
Just wanted to get updates. Is it still having issues?
Regards,
Hi FramerV and StephenB, I disconnected the ReadyNAS from the network, and the duplication stopped; when I reconnected it, the duplication started again.
The ReadyNAS contains one share only (the Media share is empty and it is skipped from the duplication), and there are not backup jobs setted in the Nas and in any Windows 7 application neither.
The system iterates the duplication of the folders tree of the share, nesting it inside an infinite number of sublevels. The name of the root of the duplicated folders is "Nas", which is the name I assigned in every PC of the network to the share of the ReadyNAS as a mapped network drive. This root folder is placed among all the other folders at the root level of the share.
The duplication doesn't copy exactly all the subdirs of the share tree because, well before the completion of the first tree, it starts a second tree duplication, nesting it inside the first, and before the completion of the second tree it starts the third tree and so on.
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