Assuming that this is the correct forum... As I am sooooooo incredibly new to FreeNAS and Unix in general, please excuse the naivete of my question:
Using RSync, I am pushing everything my primary FreeNAS to backup FreeNAS on the same network. Pretty straight forward. My primary NAS has a single 5.1 TB volume. My backup NAS has a single 3.1 TB volume.
On my primary NAS the volume is divided into two file extents (ISCSI Sharing). One extent is being used for VMWare and the other for Windows. As well, each extent is 1 TB. The used disk space is approximately 93 GB. A small fraction of the 5.1 TB.
Now that I am RSync'ing, I see the the disk space used by my backup NAS is 230+ GB and still growing. The RSync has been running for 45 minutes or so.
I do not understand why the backup NAS volume is SO MUCH larger than the original? Do I have something backwards? Will I eventually have a problem with my backup NAS.
Tom
Using RSync, I am pushing everything my primary FreeNAS to backup FreeNAS on the same network. Pretty straight forward. My primary NAS has a single 5.1 TB volume. My backup NAS has a single 3.1 TB volume.
On my primary NAS the volume is divided into two file extents (ISCSI Sharing). One extent is being used for VMWare and the other for Windows. As well, each extent is 1 TB. The used disk space is approximately 93 GB. A small fraction of the 5.1 TB.
Now that I am RSync'ing, I see the the disk space used by my backup NAS is 230+ GB and still growing. The RSync has been running for 45 minutes or so.
I do not understand why the backup NAS volume is SO MUCH larger than the original? Do I have something backwards? Will I eventually have a problem with my backup NAS.
Tom