Deleting pool questions

[NASr710]

I have a time machine pool that is giving me trouble. It was working fine for over a year and it grew out of space and has been dysfunctional Ever since. I have been trying to delete the data and I can't seem to do it from the Mac. So tried deleting the pool and it says it is being accessed (not sure why).

Can someone explain the difference between deleting a pool and Export/Disconnect a Pool? Any other ideas?

 

[sretalla]

So tried deleting the pool and it says it is being accessed (not sure why).

Is the SMB service running? that would be locking the Time Machine share.

Destroying a pool can be done with the Export/disconnect option using the checkbox to wipe during that process.

If a pool is exported it can then be imported again later, either on the same system or a different one.

 

[NASr710]

Yes. SMB service is running.

So yesterday, it recreated a new pool. Time machine was seeing it but can't seem to log in when it asks for user and password. I was using the User that is associated with the TM pool.

Then today I changed the user name in SHARING>AFP to my login instead of the TM user name I had set up. Then under POOL>PERMISSIONS I changed the User to my user name and the my login as well and group to our FAMILY group. Then it connected to the drive. Now I am waiting to see if it backs up. Is it necessary to create a separate USER to login or do the TM backup?

I am confused about how to properly set up TM. I have seen many different ways. The pool can be either set up as Unix or MAC? I had set it to Unix but it looks like it must have defaulted to Mac? I have seen different write ups saying both...

 

[NASr710]

Backup failed again... 'TM couldn't backup to 'freeness.local' ?

 

[sretalla]

Did you follow this guide?

13. Sharing — FreeNAS®11.3-U5 User Guide Table of Contents

www.ixsystems.com

And if you did, why did you choose the deprecated AFP sharing over SMB?

Also, you might help yourself by getting to a supported version of FreeNAS which has had numerous updates for Time Machine. (if your sig correctly identifies that you're still on 11.2)

 

[NASr710]

Thanks. I did not notice there was a major update... I will work on getting that installed next.

I got it working. I was following this guide:

https://medium.com/@peter_hanneman/apple-time-machine-backups-with-freenas-9178d72ea674

 

[NASr710]

I just upgraded to 11.3 u5. I read through the notes and some postings on AFP vs SMB. Seems like it may be wise to redo my sharing with SMB instead of AFP? I have been running everything off AFP.

Any ideas as to the Share Type when setting up the pools? The write up suggested using UNIX instead of MAC.

 

[sretalla]

Seems like it may be wise to redo my sharing with SMB instead of AFP?

Yes, as mentioned earlier, SMB is now preferred by both Apple and TrueNAS.

The guide I linked mentions the option to do either at the creating the share step.

 

[NASr710]

Yes. I am following it and trying to set up. But a little confused when the 'Configure ACL' pop up occurs. Is this critical? can I just hit cancel?