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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...
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.[/quote]
FastFWD,
Wow. OK My ears are pinned back severely! Perhaps we are speaking past each other. The 'valuable files' that live in my 'Recycle Bin' live there only until the ReadyNAS internal logic makes them disappear. I do NOT use the 'Recycle Bin' as 'just another temp storage place.' Files I dedicate to the 'Recycle Bin' have been determined to be TRASH. I choose not to backup TRASH. Files on my ReadyNAS are viable and valuable to me until I actively delete them to the 'Recycle Bin.' Currently, I run all of my shares on 3 ReadyNAS using the default setting provided when I enable the Recycle Bin. For the past 2 years I have asked for links/docs/experts explaining the 'HOW' the ReadyNAS Recycle Bin logic works; the WHEN the logic works, so that I can understand the 'HOW' to customize my shares. I wait still. Now, perhaps this internal logic is proprietary to ReadyNAS.
Fine. I gave up asking; even though 'magically' I have seen this logic work. Yes, perhaps my settings are at fault; I accept this, but I am using the default setting ReadyNAS gives me - and then fails to explain to me how to use the 2 metrics you cite. I have found zero 'help' from ReadyNAS to explain the 'days' or 'filesize' metrics given since ~2006 when I installed my 1st ReadyNAS DUO. I wait patiently for answers as I cruise happily into the future with my 3 ReadyNAS toys! I just kinda live with this ATM.
Yes, at this point, I will somehow control my 'backup' selections to "forget" the 'Recycle Bin' during backup activities. Sorry. This really seems silly. It seems to me that during any 'backup' operation any directory inside any share labeled 'Recycle Bin' should be left alone and NEVER moved. JMHO.
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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.[/quote]
FastFWD,
Wow. OK My ears are pinned back severely! Perhaps we are speaking past each other. The 'valuable files' that live in my 'Recycle Bin' live there only until the ReadyNAS internal logic makes them disappear. I do NOT use the 'Recycle Bin' as 'just another temp storage place.' Files I dedicate to the 'Recycle Bin' have been determined to be TRASH. I choose not to backup TRASH. Files on my ReadyNAS are viable and valuable to me until I actively delete them to the 'Recycle Bin.' Currently, I run all of my shares on 3 ReadyNAS using the default setting provided when I enable the Recycle Bin. For the past 2 years I have asked for links/docs/experts explaining the 'HOW' the ReadyNAS Recycle Bin logic works; the WHEN the logic works, so that I can understand the 'HOW' to customize my shares. I wait still. Now, perhaps this internal logic is proprietary to ReadyNAS.
Fine. I gave up asking; even though 'magically' I have seen this logic work. Yes, perhaps my settings are at fault; I accept this, but I am using the default setting ReadyNAS gives me - and then fails to explain to me how to use the 2 metrics you cite. I have found zero 'help' from ReadyNAS to explain the 'days' or 'filesize' metrics given since ~2006 when I installed my 1st ReadyNAS DUO. I wait patiently for answers as I cruise happily into the future with my 3 ReadyNAS toys! I just kinda live with this ATM.
Yes, at this point, I will somehow control my 'backup' selections to "forget" the 'Recycle Bin' during backup activities. Sorry. This really seems silly. It seems to me that during any 'backup' operation any directory inside any share labeled 'Recycle Bin' should be left alone and NEVER moved. JMHO.
Best :D
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