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STAXUser
Oct 01, 2013Aspirant
Storage
My ReadyNAS 104s have a 3 x 1Tb RAID5 array in them ( I have two) I am using Cobian Backup to do incremental backups from my server drives. After the first backups, the amount of storage used on ea...
StephenB
Oct 01, 2013Guru - Experienced User
I think it is the snapshots.
There is no magic on the size they take. The principle is "copy on write" When you replace data by rewriting (or deleting) the old version is placed in the snapshot.
Files that haven't changed take no space - but the ones that have changed can take a lot of space.
There is no magic on the size they take. The principle is "copy on write" When you replace data by rewriting (or deleting) the old version is placed in the snapshot.
Files that haven't changed take no space - but the ones that have changed can take a lot of space.
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