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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?
Pstreicher wrote:
I find in the list of snapshots the first file was dated 1970 in each of the folders.
That probably means at some point the time was reset to epoch time and changes were made before the time was corrected by the next check with the time server.
Pstreicher wrote:
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?
Does your initrd.log show that you last did a factory reset on firmware prior to 6.2.0. If so, another possibility is that there are some snapshots that existed prior to updating to 6.2.0 (or later) that were not one-off upgraded and still exist but are not visible in the GUI.
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