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Manually delete snapshot of deletetd share
Hi everybody,
i need to remove a lot of old snapshot related to a share deleted a lot of months ago.
Can I delete snapshot folder without issues, using winSCP ?
This is my situation, viewed by winSCP - SSH
My active shares
The "orphan" snapshot folder, related to an old deleted share
the content of snapshot folder (about 1,5 TB)
Is it safe to delete it ? In this way I can recover snapshot used space ?
Thanks everybody for help
Cheers
Merlinweb
I've Found a Solution, maybe...
After uncheck everything related to snapshot, I've started to manually deleted all snapshots unreferenced to a share, because share was previously deleted.
This is the command I'm using:
btrfs subvolume delete /data/._share/<DELETED_SHARE>/.snapshot/<Snapshot_name>
It's possible to use wildcard like * to delete multiple snapshots for example c*
Then, I've launched a SCRUB command, it's working VERY SLOWLY, but snapshot space is constantly decreasing, while free space is growing up, after 4 hours is less than 4%...
I think I will launch a BALANCE, finally, to complete cleaning & maintenance procedure
ReadyNAS is always accessible, but performance monitor show it's workin on disk
Cheers
Merlinweb
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You delete snapshots from the admin web ui, not by deleting the snapshot folder.
Thanks for your answer.
It is not possible to delete from web gui, because all snapshots is already deleted and snapshot production stopped for all shares.
In the web gui, all snapshots are gone, but I have more than 1,5 TB of snapshot space used.
Investigating with winSCP, I've found that over 1,5 TB of snapshots are related to a deleted (in 2016, marked yellow in picture in first post) share, not available in web gui
I need a way to delete all snapshots connected to this deleted share
Thanks
Merlinweb
I'm not sure what will happen if you try to delete the snapshots that way. It'd be better to have Netgear support remove them.
If you purchased the NAS (new) between 1 June 2014 and 31 May 2016 then you have lifetime chat support (my.netgear.com).
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