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RN316 and 6.6.1 not honoring smart snapshot management
My shares are set to "weekly" smart snapshot management. Right now, one of the shares has 12 snapshots Looks like there are 8 weekly snapshots and 4 monthly ones. I didn't create the monthly ones,...
I just wish it was stated in the window where you set the snapshot information, because that's what I was going by.
So, now if I want to change that behavior, and just do 8 snapshots total, I could change from smart to standard management, and select 8 snapshots total. Will the system automatically remove the older snapshots?
Laserbait wrote:
So, now if I want to change that behavior, and just do 8 snapshots total, I could change from smart to standard management, and select 8 snapshots total. Will the system automatically remove the older snapshots?
If you switch to custom snapshots with limited retention, the system will remove the older ones it knows about. That should happen at the next scheduled snapshot time.
FWIW, the options in custom snapshots fit me better than the "smart" settings. I set most shares for 3 months retention, and "only take snapshot with changes". Some shares have shorter retention - my share for PC image backups for instance has only two weeks retention.
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