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joe_schmo
Apr 26, 2018Tutor
/var/backups/md
root@NAS:~# find /var -printf '%s %p\n' | sort -nr | head -20
1999268126720 /var/backups/md/tmp/wwn-0x5000cca251f3c069-part7
1999268126720 /var/backups/md/tmp/sdh7
1999268126720 /var/backups/md/tmp/a...
mdgm-ntgr
Apr 26, 2018NETGEAR Employee Retired
You should have raid_config_XXXX_XX_XX_XXXXXX.tar.xz files in /var/backups/md
Has support looked at your system for some reason? Sounds like they extracted one of those files but forgot to clean up afterwards.
The compressed archive can be invaluable in a data recovery situation. So leave the tar.xz files but you can delete everything else in /var/backups/md
The files in /var/cores are core dumps. These can be useful for diagnosing why those services crashed. If they're recent you may wish to compress them e.g.
# cd /var/cores # lzma -9 core-readynasd
and keep them around in case they're needed for troubleshooting or if they're very old you could just remove them.
/var/lib/apt/lists contains the list of available packages to install.
/var/cache/apt contains the package archive of packages that have been downloaded.
/var/log/journal contains the main log for the system (this is rotated automatically).
/var/readynasd and /var/backups/readynasd contain important databases and backups respectively. Leave these alone.
joe_schmo
Apr 26, 2018Tutor
Thanks for this...
I am trying to figure out why my rsync jobs keep hanging up on each file. It goes for a bit, then pauses, then starts up. I am only able to copy about 200MB a day and it's driving me crazy!
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