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KenD90027
Apr 27, 2015Tutor
RN314 - want to limit number of daily snapshots kept
Hello from sunny Los Angeles, CA! Ken here, working IT for a Wholesale business where I administer a ReadyNAS 314 with two mirrored 4TB drives. First day in the forum here, was about to start searc...
btaroli
Apr 28, 2015Prodigy
Well, it's really the CoW that's causes the "fragmentation", since a file that may have miraculously been written to contiguous blocks will no longer be once even one of its blocks is updated. But it is of course true that snapshots can't be enabled without also having CoW enabled. :)
I didn't realize monthly snapshots were retained indefinitely. Might make me rethink using weekly instead. But that does make me curious how to adjust the retention rules, as mdgm mentioned. (Whoops! That showed up in the RSS feed but not in the web site... "This percentage can be adjusted via SSH.")
I didn't realize monthly snapshots were retained indefinitely. Might make me rethink using weekly instead. But that does make me curious how to adjust the retention rules, as mdgm mentioned. (Whoops! That showed up in the RSS feed but not in the web site... "This percentage can be adjusted via SSH.")
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