I've used the rollback feature to go back to a point in time for a specific dataset. No problems there. If I create a recursive snapshot of an entire pool (all child datasets included), it creates a snapshot for each child dataset within the entire pool. So far, so good. Yet if I rollback the...

Hello, I have been researching this for a while and still am not very clear. What I have at the moment is two freenas servers running 11.2 U5 (Server A and Server B). Server A is my main server with plex, transmission and data sets, the pool (Nas1) is a mirrored stripe (6 x 3TB HDD), about 50%...

Hi All, I found this code: rollup.py --recursive --intervals 'daily:90,monthly:24,yearly:0' poolname in this thread: https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?threads/periodic-snapshot-every-month.17928/ How is this code run? As a CRON job? Also, is this still the preferred method for pruning...

I'd like to create a snapshot schedule as follows: 1- 1 snapshot per day, retaining each snapshot for 1 month 2- After 1 month, retain only 1 snapshot per week (eg snapshots from days 1+7*n - ie, days 1, 8, 15, etc) 3-After 6 months, retain only 1 snapshot per month (eg retain only snapshots...

Snapshot replication support. Hi, I colleague of mine depoyed ( not fully ) and then left me a FreeNAS solution. If I can explain maybe you can help. Every night a server backs up to on premise FreeNAS box creating a large file. ( 825GiB ). So I have looked though the forums and cannot find a...

Hi All, I'm in the process of testing FreeNAS as an alternative to my WHS2011 - I've reached the 2TB limit on it and need something to replace it. This is for a home system for photos, music, films, ISOs, etc, and some data. My current WHS setup is effectively: 2 x 2TB disks in mirror (using...

Hello, I have an existing FreeNAS server running the latest 9.4 software (96GB RAM, 6 - 4TB SAS Constellation Drives, 2 - 128GB Enterprise SSD for caching) that is getting full...so I upgraded my existing local BackUp FreeNAS server with 4 - 8TB Seagate Pro drives with 2 - 128GB Enterprise...

I needed to clean up some space, because volume has hit the 80 %. So I started to delete a lot of large files, which I didn't need any more, like large downloads etc. After that I noticed, that little to none space was freed through this. So I thought about snapshots. Listing the snapshots in...

So I am moving all the data from a ZPool Media2 -> zPool Media I ran this command zfs send -Rv Media2@Media2_snap | zfs receive -Fdu Media/Media2Moved and successfully moved Everything to Media root@freenas:/mnt/Media/FreeNas/.zfs/snapshot # zfs list -t snapshot NAME USED...

Not sure if this is the right place to post this, but this is both a "possible suggestion" and questions (in bold). I use FreeNAS in a SOHO environment where the system can sit for hours (and sometimes days) without any significant data changes and changes don't follow a regular schedule. I...

I'm trying to get to the point where I feel ready to put my FreeNAS into production. I'm running FreeNAS-9.10.2-U6 on a Mini XL. My clients are a mixture of Windows 7 and Windows 10 x64. The latest thing I've been trying to do is make my snapshots useful. I'm currently taking 15 minute...

zfs list shows: NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT zfsdump 5.80T 1.02T 3.67T /mnt/zfsdump du -sh /mnt/zfsdump/ shows: 3.7T /mnt/zfsdump" Cleaned up snapshots and did a scrub without results. zfs list -t snapshot -o space shows: NAME AVAIL USED...

I have a Samba share with ACLs used to control access to the files. There are two groups - let's call them "ordinary" and "admin" users - I want the admin users to be able to see and browse certain old snapshots, which I've set to be shown by default in ZFS properties, and removed from veto...

I'm attempting to set up my replication tasks on FreeNAS1. The Snapshots run between 0630 and 1830 then stop. Then my replication task starts at 2030 and I end it at 0530. So on FreeNAS2 I get ALL these 15 minute interval snapshots. But since FreeNAS2 is my offsite, I really have no use for...

I'm hoping that someone with experience can help me validate my concept for removable local backups before I dig deeply into the research on the exact commands and how to script it. TLDR; Can I selectively update a backup created with zfs send -r \ zfs receive. If necessary I am OK with...

Given the following snapshots: zfs snapshot TANK/dataset@first zfs snapshot TANK/dataset@second zfs snapshot TANK/dataset@third Am I correct in assuming that assuming there were no changes to TANK/dataset that all three snapshots show referred as "zero length"? Even though there is no file...

I'm being affected quite badly by this known FreeBSD ZFS tracked issue which is related to statfs + this issue + this, when using my FreeNAS box. Unfortunately I'm not clear about what must be avoided, to avoid triggering the issue, or how to identify existing snapshots or nested datasets that...

Hello there, how can I access to ZFS snapshots in OSX? I have no problems to access VSS snapshots with Windows using CIFS (using "previous versions"), but I'm not able to figure out how to access them with OSX. Any suggestion? Thank you

I'm trying to understand the information displayed in the Snapshots view tab. I'm running FreeNAS-11.0-U3 (c5dcf4416) and maybe this behaviour is only on my installation or maybe it's the right one. If someone could confirm? There are actually 369 snapshots for the dataset Presidio, but in the...

I'm running FreeNAS-11.0-U2 and have a slight problem viewing snapshots in the GUI the screen just keeps trying to load but nothing ever shows up all I get is "loading..." I know they are working because I can see them in the shell with zfs list -t snapshot. So anyone have any ideas as to...

Hello everyone, I came across these errors last week. But first my system's specs: Build number : FreeNAS-9.10.2-U5 (561f0d7a1) Motherboard make and model -AsRock z170m extreme 4 CPU make and model -Intel Celeron G3900 RAM quantity -64GB ECC Kingston Hard drives, quantity, model...

Hi, i search for answer for my total noob question. :oops: My situation: Have two old freenas box (with FN 9.10.2 U3 installed). In begining, i used replications for backuping data. But after some time i decided use rsync for backup and not replications. I disabled autosnapshot task and...

Hello Forum, Have a query regarding replication of a snapshot to a remote server that is not FreeNAS. The destination server is a Proxmox system which supports ZFS and I have a three disk ZFS RAID1 configured. I have set up the automatic creation of snapshots for a couple of my volumes...

I'd like to create a snapshot routine that looks something like this, and export it via shadow-copy ("Previous Versions") on CIFS:: Every 30 minutes, kept for 72 hours Every 12 hours, kept for 21 days Weekly, kept for 6 months Offline or further snapshots for 1-3 years or as needed, or backups...

I found that I could select my 1,500 snapshots and use the GUI button to delete them. The problem is that they don't delete. I found that I could click as many as TWO snapshots and they would delete, but three or more will not. Ideas?

Hello FreeNAS-Community! I've been playing around with Linux distributions and small just-for-fun servers out of old hardware for some time now. About 3 years ago I've got myself a 4-bay Synology NAS to get a bit more serious about storage and to consolidate all my data on one device. It's an...

Hi, If used VMWare snapshot, the state of the VMs are consistent when making the dataset snapshot, is there any way to have the same consistence for XenServer VMs ? The idea is to replicate the dataset that is configured as XenServer SR to a remote site but having the VMs on a consistent state...

Howdy all, Ive been looking around the forums here trying to see if there is a way to do a snapshot replication tasks between to pools on the same node (this is for a home setup). Now yes, I know you can setup the GUI replication task and just point it to loopback and apply the SSH key...