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Snapshots, how to recover more filespace by deleting
I discovered my free space was under 10%. I originally set up shares to make snapshots. I no longer feel the need for snapshots and have turned them off in one share to see how I can recover free space. This one folder showed 54 years of snapshot recovery. Quite ridiculous. Now that I have set the snapshot to 'Never', what next? I did a refresh but still see the snapshots and 10% or less free space. Do I have to wait a certain time for the snapshots to delete or what?
You delete them manually. Go to the share page, and click the snapshots button on the upper right. Then click a share. You'll see a screen with a list of snapshots. Select one or more, and you'll have a choice to delete them.
Pstreicher wrote:
This one folder showed 54 years of snapshot recovery. Quite ridiculous.
It couldn't show 54 years unless you had an incorrectly set clock for a while.
The "smart" snapshots aren't that smart, since the monthly ones are never deleted. I use custom snapshots, because I can set the maximum retention time. I schedule them to run daily.
Here's the settings I use:
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You delete them manually. Go to the share page, and click the snapshots button on the upper right. Then click a share. You'll see a screen with a list of snapshots. Select one or more, and you'll have a choice to delete them.
Pstreicher wrote:
This one folder showed 54 years of snapshot recovery. Quite ridiculous.
It couldn't show 54 years unless you had an incorrectly set clock for a while.
The "smart" snapshots aren't that smart, since the monthly ones are never deleted. I use custom snapshots, because I can set the maximum retention time. I schedule them to run daily.
Here's the settings I use:
I find in the list of snapshots the first file was dated 1970 in each of the folders. Tell me this, I see in the logs that I have deleted all the snapshots but the free space hasn't increased, is this normal? What do I have to do to get the space freed up?
It takes some time for the space to be freed up. Give it an hour or so, and then run a balance (from the volume settings wheel).
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