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Recycle bin fills up my ReadyNAS
I use Radiator 1.4.6 with my ReadyNAS Duo. About two months ago I enabled the Recycle bin for my CIFS share "Backup", with options "Remove files older than: 10 days" and "Limit Recycle Bin to: 200 Mb" about 2 months ago. Yesterday I noticed that of my 1 Tb discs 600 Gb were used, and found that most of this was the Recycle bin, with loads of copies of backup files through NTI Shadow for ReadyNAS. It is configured to make a backup once a day with 3 older copies saved, so the fourth copy sends the former one to Recycle bin I suppose. Now I've spent several hours erasing this huge bin (that is from now on disabled).
Does anyone recognize this problem - that the Recycle bin doesn't empty itself as it should according to the options? I have turned it off now, and realize that three version copies in the backup usually are enough.
Does anyone recognize this problem - that the Recycle bin doesn't empty itself as it should according to the options? I have turned it off now, and realize that three version copies in the backup usually are enough.
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- I'll have our testers check out the recycle bin cleaning feature.
- Thank you, I will be waiting for an answer.
- If it's not inconvenient, can you try rebooting the NAS? It's possible that the process that kicks off the recycle bin cleanup script is no longer running.
- I have rebooted the ReadyNAS several times during the period when the recycle bin was overfilling. Now I have turned it off, rebooted and erased everything.
- During what periods of time is the ReadyNAS normally powered on and powered off? Are the files in the Recycle Bin normally a large number of very small files, a small number of large files, etc.?
- It's powered off every night with automatic on/off, and has been rebooted maybe once every 2-3 weeks. The files in the Recycle bin seemed to be #1,#2,#3 up to maybe #100 or so (i have, as I said, deleted them) of I think every file that ever was backed up, like Outlook.pst files (about 30 Mb each), and jpg images (about 2 Mb each). It seemed like several copies of every file ever backed up and took hours to delete. That is a large number of files sized from very small to fairly big (I didn't have any movies or other Gb-sized files in the folders I backed up). The program (NTI Shadow) initially was set to make a backup whenever a file was changed, but later I changed this and made it backup once every evening.
- Try leaving the NAS on overnight and see if the cleanup scripts gets kicked off.
- Thank you very much for your support, but during the time my recycle bin was filled up I have used different configurations, including leaving it on overnight. I don't see why this would be a solution and - as I have said - I have now decided that I don't need the recycle bin, so I have left it off and I don't intend to turn it on again. But I'm very impressed with the Netgear support, it's not common to have someone trying to solve computer problems like you have done! :D
- We did find a minor bug in the Recycle Bin cleanup script that could cause more space to be used than expected, but I'm not sure it would result in as large of a difference as you saw. If you decide to enable Recycle Bin in the future and still see a problem, let me know.
- I also have seen items remain undeleted in share Recycle Bins for long periods of time (much longer than the NAS share setting). For example, I recently undertook a reduction of files on certain NAS shares because these shares were being backed up to Readynas Vault, and were consuming too much space ($$) there. During this process, I discovered hundreds of files dating from almost a year ago sitting in the various cryptically named Recycle Bin subfolders. I have also done all of the things suggested above, so it appears there is some kind of script failure occurring and that I must manually clean out these old files. Is it safe to simply delete at will from the RECYCLER folder?
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