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'Recycle Bin' cleaning?
About 8 months back I asked questions about how the ReadyNAS 'Recycle Bin' works. I never received a really good answer. But, since then I have visually, via RAIDar, seen that the ReadyNAS actually do...
NASNoob wrote: Is there any manual switch/setting I can update in Frontview to control how soon the ReadyNAS cleans out its' Recycle Bin????
- In Frontview, click Shares, then click Share Listing.
- Find the share whose Recycle Bin behavior you want to modify. Click its icon in the CIFS column.
- Scroll down to the "Recycle Bin" section of the configuration and modify the "Enable Recycle Bin", "Remove files older than ? days", and "Limit Recycle Bin to ? MB" options as you desire.
- Click Apply.
- Repeat for each share whose behavior you wish to modify.
NASNoob wrote: This is a primary reason I have NOT yet started 'backing up' my ReadyNAS devices. I do NOT wish to copy 'trash' from nasA to nasB, or from nasB to nasC. Comprende????
No, I don't comprende at all. If your deleted files are valuable enough to keep in the recycle bin for a period of time, then they are valuable enough to backup.
But if you really want to ensure that those files will be lost forever if your NAS crashes, just exclude the Recycle Bin directory from the backup jobs you create in Frontview.
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