as you can see from the last screenshot, i have 4 ZFS pools. I will explain them for context
TEST = a single 2TB pool just for testing because this drive was taking errors and i think it was a cable problem. it will stay unused as a backup for the MEDIA pool incase of a future failure so i will have a hot disk ready to go
MEDIA = a 6 drive (2TB) RAIDZ1 pool for media library storage and a secondary spot for a backup of important data
BACKUPS = a 3 drive (2TB) RAIDZ1 pool for initial backups of important data from desktop from rsync jobs
SCRATCH = a 1 drive simple/basic 256Gb SSD pool for things like downloads and handbrake conversions. This pool contains dockers and portainer images like SABZ, SONARR, RADARR and HANDBRAKE.
I created each of these pools the exact same way. As you can see from above, only the SCRATCH pool is acting a bit odd, maybe it is supposed to be this way with docker/portainer, but i just don't know. The amount of clutter sends my OCD into overdrive seeing all the snapshots/clones/filesystems in those listings.
now to the questions.
1. why are there so many listing (snapshots/clones/filesystems) in the ZFS listings?
2. why are these snapshots being made?
3. even though they don't take up much space, it is a lot of them and i am wondering when i can delete them and possibly cut down the frequency of their creation?
4. do i need all of these snapshots?
5. should i turn off the snapshots, and if so how do i remove them or make them only 1 or 2 deep? I have tried to delete the snapshots from snapshots tab, the zfs clones/filesystems from the ZFS tab and both efforts show errors saying that something depends on them and they can't be deleted.
not even sure how to look this up with google, because i have no idea if it is portainer/docker doing this (which i assume it is) but the only thing i can do in portainer is change the frequency of when they are made. I don't see anywhere in portainer on deleting them or making them really change. Just not even sure if this is how it is supposed to look/be.
again, sorry if i post this in the wrong place, but i am not really sure where this need to belong. Please lend a hand and have a great day
thanks,
Jeff