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Remove all snapshots and disable the feature
I somehow wound up enabling snapshots for my music files. I have dozens of them, each re-creating my entire music hierarchy and consuming over 2/3 of my 4TB of drive space. I cannot find a way to mass delete them all short of an 18-hour Windows delete process which is crazy.
How can I get rid of these and disable the feature forever? One backup of my music folder is all I will probably ever need. Ditto pictures.
Please and thanks!
PeterD2 wrote:
You say it doesn't take up all that much space, yet when I search the Music folder (via Windows) for a title, I will see the same title listed dozens of times, each in a different folder, each taking 5 to 10 Mb of space. Multiply that by about 30 GB of music. How does it not take up a phenomenal amount of space?
Read this thread (particularly my post on the first page) https://community.netgear.com/t5/ReadyNAS-in-Business/ReadyNAS-312-Need-Help-Understanding-Snapshots/td-p/936581
The short answer is that there aren't as many copies as it looks like. If the files haven't changed, then the snapshots and the main folder point to the same datablocks.
You can't get real space usage from Windows on this. You need to look in the NAS web ui (6.4.x will show you snapshot usage).
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You do both from the web ui. FWIW, normally they don't take as much space as it might appear, but they will take a lot of space if you do a lot of deleting and retagging.
To delete, select the share, and then chose recover. Select the snapshots you want to delete, and then right-click. You'll see a delete option as shown.
To disable snapshots, select the share setting and set the snapshot schedule to "never".
You say it doesn't take up all that much space, yet when I search the Music folder (via Windows) for a title, I will see the same title listed dozens of times, each in a different folder, each taking 5 to 10 Mb of space. Multiply that by about 30 GB of music. How does it not take up a phenomenal amount of space?
PeterD2 wrote:
You say it doesn't take up all that much space, yet when I search the Music folder (via Windows) for a title, I will see the same title listed dozens of times, each in a different folder, each taking 5 to 10 Mb of space. Multiply that by about 30 GB of music. How does it not take up a phenomenal amount of space?
Read this thread (particularly my post on the first page) https://community.netgear.com/t5/ReadyNAS-in-Business/ReadyNAS-312-Need-Help-Understanding-Snapshots/td-p/936581
The short answer is that there aren't as many copies as it looks like. If the files haven't changed, then the snapshots and the main folder point to the same datablocks.
You can't get real space usage from Windows on this. You need to look in the NAS web ui (6.4.x will show you snapshot usage).
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