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SFoster
Jan 08, 2018Aspirant
RN104 Lost all snapshots, prune worker deleted them all
Good morning I've come in to the office this morning at the start of the week to do my routine server check and made a worrying discovery. Over the weekend our RN104 has decided to delete all the st...
SFoster
Jan 29, 2018Aspirant
This post had been marked as spam and now it has been approved it's entered straight in to page 11.
Update:
I was cautious about making any changes until I had a better idea of what is going on here. Further information I have now is that no snapshots are now scheduled. I haven't altered the schedule since I set the unit up in 2015. Further entries to the log back to the firmware upgrades.
Tue Jan 2 2018 15:16:20 Backup: Successfully completed backup job Remote Backup. Mon Jan 1 2018 0:09:22 Volume: Defragmentation complete for volume data. Mon Jan 1 2018 0:00:06 Volume: Defragmentation started for volume data. Sat Dec 30 2017 4:08:41 Snapshot: Snapshot prune worker successfully deleted snapshot 2017_11_04__00_00_53 from share or LUN Aivaf. Tue Dec 26 2017 0:00:43 Volume: Balance complete for volume data. Tue Dec 26 2017 0:00:07 Volume: Balance started for volume data. Fri Dec 22 2017 12:47:14 Backup: Error backup job Remote Backup: Destination is read-only or files/folders could not be created. Check if these files or folders meet the destination file system limitation. Mon Dec 18 2017 10:14:22 System: Application Contacts and Calendars Server is installed successfully. Mon Dec 18 2017 9:11:04 Backup: Successfully completed backup job Remote Backup. Sat Dec 16 2017 7:03:50 Snapshot: Snapshot prune worker successfully deleted snapshot 2017_10_21__00_00_18 from share or LUN Aivaf. Mon Dec 11 2017 15:52:04 Backup: Successfully completed backup job Remote Backup (Off site drive). Mon Dec 11 2017 9:02:26 Backup: Successfully completed backup job Remote Backup. Sat Dec 9 2017 2:00:39 Snapshot: Snapshot prune worker successfully deleted snapshot 2017_10_14__00_00_58 from share or LUN Aivaf. Mon Dec 4 2017 9:35:42 Backup: Successfully completed backup job Remote Backup. Sat Dec 2 2017 7:58:09 Snapshot: Snapshot prune worker successfully deleted snapshot 2017_10_07__00_00_25 from share or LUN Aivaf. Fri Dec 1 2017 6:58:12 System: A new firmware version (6.9.1) is available. Fri Dec 1 2017 0:16:11 Volume: Defragmentation complete for volume data. Fri Dec 1 2017 0:00:06 Volume: Defragmentation started for volume data. Tue Nov 28 2017 9:24:35 Backup: Error backup job Remote Backup: Destination is read-only or files/folders could not be created. Check if these files or folders meet the destination file system limitation. Sun Nov 26 2017 0:29:50 Volume: Balance complete for volume data. Sun Nov 26 2017 0:00:01 Volume: Balance started for volume data. Mon Nov 20 2017 8:32:49 Backup: Successfully completed backup job Remote Backup. Sat Nov 18 2017 7:52:54 Snapshot: Snapshot prune worker successfully deleted snapshot 2017_09_23__00_00_26 from share or LUN Aivaf. Fri Nov 17 2017 6:52:18 System: ReadyNASOS background service started. Fri Nov 17 2017 6:52:10 System: Firmware was upgraded to 6.9.0.
Frustratingly I hadn't noticed the lack of snapshots being taken since the upgrade to 6.9.0
mdgm-ntgr
Jan 31, 2018NETGEAR Employee Retired
The automatic snapshot pruning should leave the last two automatic snapshots on each share.
- SFosterFeb 01, 2018Aspirant
There isn't a single snapshot remaining.
data 1.13TB
Snapshots: 0
Free space: 698.01GB
Type: RAID 1
- SFosterFeb 20, 2018Aspirant
To add a bit more information on this bug, smart snapshots were not running. I re-apllied settings, changed the setting to a schedule instead and back to smart. Still no snapshots. I've now had to set a schedule and it has finally created the first snapshot.
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