Hi, I have a Netgear ReadyNas 104, I have 2 volumes as Raid 0, its only for tv and movies so no backups required. I have moved 997gb of data from one volume to another, but the available size of the first drive has not increased. Can someone help me with this? If it is some sort of backup causing this, can I get rid of it and turn it off??
I have no idea what Snapshots are, I am not that I.T savvy, friend help set this up so I could store TV Shows. I don't suppose I need or want these snapshots, would just rather have the space.
I assume he set it up as RAID-0 because its only TV Shows, and I would rather have the space to store more shows, than a backup of the shows... Unless there is a way to not use RAID-0 and still have it work without backups??
Snapshots are a bit like the windows recycle bin. When you moved the files to the other volume, the NAS deleted the originals after the copy. So they end up in the snapshot (just like they'd end up in the recycle bin/trash if you did this on a PC). So they aren't backups at all.
If you keep delete the TV shows after you watch them, then you probably should stop snapshots from being made automatically. If you keep the TV shows for the long term, then you might want to delete the snapshots you have now, but let the NAS make new ones. That would give you some protection from accidental deletion, and fix your space problem.
To stop new snapshots from being created , go into the web admin ui. Select "shares", then click on the share the files were originally in. Then choose settings. Set the snapshot schedule to "never".
Then you can delete the snapshots you already made by select "shares", then click on the share then choose "recover" You'll see a list of folders that are just dates.
Right click on each of the date folders, and select delete. (don't click recover button at the bottom!)
Looking at his logs his volume is close to 95% full, so he will need to be careful not to write to it or he will risk losing the files from the snapshot.
