Time Machine snapshots pile up with no auto-delete
Auto-generated Time Machine snapshots on TrueNAS are never deleted automatically, and the retention setting is hidden.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
3 public reports · first reported 23 October 2026 · last reported 24 October 2026
What's going wrong
Mac users backing up to TrueNAS find that snapshots created after each Time Machine backup are kept indefinitely, filling the pool.
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