Network drive overloaded

[Ryan Zimmerman]

Hello

I am new to FreeNas and I am having issues with my network drive that run the backup to the FreeNas. Yesterday on the network drive I had about 12.3Gb of free space of 310Gb. Now today, it is showing 0kb free of 310Gb. I went and scanned all the properties and noticed there is about 340Gb used up of 310Gb and I am not sure why. Has anyone see this issue before?

My apologies if I am not giving all the information probably needed. Again, I just started with this when it was already implemented in the building where I am located, and have no idea what I am doing.

 

[Johnny Fartpants]

Can we have zpool status and zfs list outputs please

 

[Ryan Zimmerman]

Are you able to direct me to where I can find that information?

 

[Ryan Zimmerman]

Can we have zpool status and zfs list outputs please

Are you able to direct me to where I can find that information?

 

[Johnny Fartpants]

from the command line type in zpool status and give us the output and then the same for zfs list

 

[Ryan Zimmerman]

from the command line type in zpool status and give us the output and then the same for zfs list

After more digging I found that the FreeNas is full and I need to delete old snapshots. Is there a location where I can find instructions on how to do so? Trust me when I say I have 0 experience with this and need all the help I can get.

 

[Johnny Fartpants]

Sounds about right. Login to the UI and under Storage click Snapshots. There you will see all your snapshots. Delete away.

PS: Assuming you have Periodic snapshot schedules setup then snaps should auto expire after x period of time so after fixing the issue by manually deleting snapshots you may want to investigate if your schedules are appropriate.

Beforehand you can run the below command and take a look at how much space is being used by snaps on a given dataset before deletion.

zfs get usedbysnapshots pool1/dataset1

 

[Ryan Zimmerman]

Sounds about right. Login to the UI and under Storage click Snapshots. There you will see all your snapshots. Delete away.

PS: Assuming you have Periodic snapshot schedules setup then snaps should auto expire so after fixing the issue by manually deleting snapshots you may want to investigate if your schedules are appropriate.

Does it matter which ones I delete? I just don't want to go overboard and erase something I shouldn't.

 

[Johnny Fartpants]

Do this:

Beforehand you can run the below command and take a look at how much space is being used by snaps on a given dataset before deletion.

zfs get usedbysnapshots pool1/dataset1

 

[Johnny Fartpants]

how many datasets do you have?

 

[Ryan Zimmerman]

Do this:

Beforehand you can run the below command and take a look at how much space is being used by snaps on a given dataset before deletion.

zfs get usedbysnapshots pool1/dataset1

I am not sure where to find the command line. I am looking at all this information on IE from my computer.

 

[Johnny Fartpants]

Probably easiest then launch a shell session from the browser. Click on Shell on the left hand side of the screen. Make the shell screen as big as you can using the bottom left drop down options.

Then type:

zfs list

and print screen that so I can take a look first.

 

[Ryan Zimmerman]

Probably easiest then launch a shell session from the browser. Click on Shell on the left hand side of the screen. Make the shell screen as big as you can using the bottom left drop down options.

Then type:

zfs list

and print screen that so I can take a look first.

I tried that and when I type in zfs list, nothing happens...attached is screenshot

 

[Johnny Fartpants]

try it again as it doesn't look like it entered correctly. just type:

zfs list

 

[Johnny Fartpants]

and hit enter

 

[Ryan Zimmerman]

and hit enter

That's what I am doing. I tried it a third time and didn't make the window bigger and still the same result. I am not sure why it's not responding

 

[Johnny Fartpants]

Do you know where the FreeNAS box is located? Does it have a Monitor and keyboard connected to it? If so might be worth a visit.

 

[Johnny Fartpants]

send a print screen of you main storage page showing your datasets, periodic snapshot page and snapshot page please

 

[Ryan Zimmerman]

See attached

 

[Johnny Fartpants]

ok ta. I can't see the pool or dataset name as you've cropped it but the one with the 6.8TB used is the one you want to focus on. you're snapshot schedule doesn't last long (1 week) so Im not convinced it is snaps causing your problem. You could do with running the command below on that dataset to see how much snaps are consuming.

zfs get usedbysnapshots pool1/dataset1

Just noticed it looks like your pool is called Storage so it would be:

zfs get usedbysnapshots Storage/dataset1

dataset1 being replaced with the name of the 6.8TB dataset