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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 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.
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 and StephenB, I solved the issue, thanks to your precious help. As the ReadyNAS - when disconnected from network - stopped the continuous copy of infinite levels of subdirs, I searched for problems inside the machines connected to it, and I discovered someone had silently installed an awkward, undocumented backup program (without properly configuring it). This program went unnoticed, because it couldn't bypass the network proxy firewall and it never worked. As soon as, upon a system update, an administrator got rid of the proxy, the silent backup program suddenly started to do its malevolous routine in the background. Many thanks for your help!!!
Hi orsobubu,
Thank you for sharing your resolution and/or workaround. We appreciate your contribution to the community.
Feel free to post any suggestions, questions, recommendations or anything about your NAS that you think needs attention or will help others.
Regards,
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