Replacement drive help?

Did you set up any backup jobs when you installed the NAS? Or maybe press the backup button? It wouldn't do this replication on its own. As I said, the mirroring is invisible to you.

Try adding one file to media (a small one, since you don't have much space), and then look in backup to see if it shows up immediately. If it is not there, then wait a day, and then look again.

Also try deleting one file in backup, and see if it comes back. (You might as well check to see if it disappears in media as well). Copy the file to your pc first, just for safety.

StephenB

I have been running a couple of tests as you suggested above.

I have copied some files onto the media share and then looked at backup and so far it has not shown up?
I have also deleted some files from the backup share and they have not deleted from the first media share?

I think one of my original settings was i scheduled a backup task to create a backup of media each day - which i believe wrote the info to the backup share - thus creating a copy. and then the hidden mirrors you spoke about then created a copy of both of these shares?

do you think this is accurate?

If this is the case I believe I should delete the backup share completely from front view. But will this remove automatically the extra hidden backup which i don't see freeing up lots more space on my drive?

Phantome46 wrote:
I think one of my original settings was i scheduled a backup task to create a backup of media each day - which i believe wrote the info to the backup share - thus creating a copy. and then the hidden mirrors you spoke about then created a copy of both of these shares? do you think this is accurate?

This explains what we are seeing - both why the files are showing up in backup, and why the volume is full.

Phantome46 wrote:
If this is the case I believe I should delete the backup share completely from front view.

You can do that, or delete the folders in it, and leave the share empty. Disable the recycle bin in that share first though (if it is still on). That would resolve your space problem, giving you 420 GB more space.

Phantome46 wrote:
But will this remove automatically the extra hidden backup which i don't see freeing up lots more space on my drive?

It wouldn't stop the mirroring, and you don't want it to.

If you still want more space, just add another 1 TB drive to the array. That will convert your mirror to a more sophisticated RAID format. You would have 2 TB of storage, and the RAID would still protect your data from a single drive failure. How that works is hard to explain, but it does.

thank you for the reply. Agree with you with regards to the mirroring of my media share but dont want to have it mirroring the backup share as well or i will have 4 copies.

Once i delete backup share does that also erase the mirror as well?

Phantome46 wrote:
Once i delete backup share does that also erase the mirror as well?

No. The mirror is always happening. Every time you change something (add a file, rename, delete, update,...) the change is made simultaneously to both disks. You never see the mirror, but if one drive fails you still see all your data.