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RN 516 available space?
I have a 516 with four 4TB drives. It’s set up in RAID 5 (one X-RAID volume). Up until a couple of months ago, there were 5 shares. I recently added a new share and copied over about a 1.2 TB of ...
If a file is in a snapshot and in the current data you would need to delete the snapshot containing the data as well to free up the space.
The oldest automatic snapshots will be automatically deleted when volume usage exceeds 95% but you can delete some earlier if you want using the web admin UI.
If a file is in a snapshot and in the current data you would need to delete the snapshot containing the data as well to free up the space.
The oldest automatic snapshots will be automatically deleted when volume usage exceeds 95% but you can delete some earlier if you want using the web admin UI.
Alsp, 6.5 beta offers some nice options for snapshot retention (allowing you to limit the number of snapshots for each share, or set a retention time limit for each share).
Thank you all for your replies. I deleted all but one of the snapshots and have freed up quite a bit of space, the amount I was expecting.
This was a learning experience for me so thanks again for your help.
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