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ScottChapman
Apprentice
Jan 09, 2015

Best way to monitor snapshot disk space?

Is there any good way to monitor how much space is being consumed by snapshots? I am running on a NAS with somewhat limited space (using about 65% at the moment). And I have snapshots for all my sh...
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ScottChapman
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Jan 10, 2015
StephenB wrote:
ScottChapman wrote:
...All this makes me think that snapshot management might be a useful add-on
Totally agree. The automatic pruning that happens now is basically a fail-safe the ensures the NAS can boot, etc. It would be great if there were user-adjustable settings via an add-on (or just built in). I think setting the max age of a snapshot would be very useful, as well as being able to set a snapshot schedule.

Now that I've figured out how to figure things out (and delete snapshots) I might write some PHP to help prune mine before the automatic pruning. Let me know if you are interested and maybe I can incorporate what you want to see.

But yea, a more official add-on would be stellar.

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