Synology-Storage Manager less than File Station
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Running the latest DSM. The appliance is just a backup destination. One single volume, no LUNs, no apps doing replication or using something like Cloud Station. Pretty simple device overall.Storage Manager shows used space is 4TB, but 2 folders in File Station add up to 9TB.
Any idea how that's possible?
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Is there something doing snapshots on this device?
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@dustinb3403 said in Synology-Storage Manager less than File Station:
Is there something doing snapshots on this device?
No snapshots, replication, or cloud services associated. It's just a destination for Veeam jobs.
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Could the files be pointing to each other somehow?
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Are there any backups of SQL Databases on this?
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@dbeato said in Synology-Storage Manager less than File Station:
Are there any backups of SQL Databases on this?
Yes. Some Veeam backups, and some SQL agents using this repository to run their backups (soon to be deprecated agents because of a new Veeam install).
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@scottalanmiller said in Synology-Storage Manager less than File Station:
Could the files be pointing to each other somehow?
Such as soft/hard links? If so, no. I can scroll through a specific directory and see individual SQL .bak files (several hundred GBs) on separate days.
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@bbigford said in Synology-Storage Manager less than File Station:
@dbeato said in Synology-Storage Manager less than File Station:
Are there any backups of SQL Databases on this?
Yes. Some Veeam backups, and some SQL agents using this repository to run their backups (soon to be deprecated agents because of a new Veeam install).
I had the same experience with SQL Backups totally a high amount of space but only small space on the sinology.
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@dbeato said in Synology-Storage Manager less than File Station:
@bbigford said in Synology-Storage Manager less than File Station:
@dbeato said in Synology-Storage Manager less than File Station:
Are there any backups of SQL Databases on this?
Yes. Some Veeam backups, and some SQL agents using this repository to run their backups (soon to be deprecated agents because of a new Veeam install).
I had the same experience with SQL Backups totally a high amount of space but only small space on the sinology.
What did you find was the reason? Because it's been driving me f*cking crazy.
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@bbigford said in Synology-Storage Manager less than File Station:
@dbeato said in Synology-Storage Manager less than File Station:
@bbigford said in Synology-Storage Manager less than File Station:
@dbeato said in Synology-Storage Manager less than File Station:
Are there any backups of SQL Databases on this?
Yes. Some Veeam backups, and some SQL agents using this repository to run their backups (soon to be deprecated agents because of a new Veeam install).
I had the same experience with SQL Backups totally a high amount of space but only small space on the sinology.
What did you find was the reason? Because it's been driving me f*cking crazy.
That comic. . I've had a few of those.
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Figured it out. Some backup software can create sparse files. File Station is reporting the size of data including sparse size, but Storage Manager is reporting only actual data on disk.
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@bbigford said in Synology-Storage Manager less than File Station:
Figured it out. Some backup software can create sparse files. File Station is reporting the size of data including sparse size, but Storage Manager is reporting only actual data on disk.
Well the issue was on Veeam Agents backups in our end.... so that might be the same reason here for me.
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@bbigford Is the recycle bin turned off for your shared folders?
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@magicmarker said in Synology-Storage Manager less than File Station:
@bbigford Is the recycle bin turned off for your shared folders?
That has been covered by @bbigford before.
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@bbigford said in Synology-Storage Manager less than File Station:
Figured it out. Some backup software can create sparse files. File Station is reporting the size of data including sparse size, but Storage Manager is reporting only actual data on disk.
On Linux, this is often the difference between the output of df and du.
