How do I get CrashPlan to backup data OUTSIDE of the jail?

[Jaknell1011]

I have tried mounting the data but keep getting errors. What am I missing here? Surely there has to be a way to do this, considering only backing up the CrashPlan jail itself does me no good. My pool lies outside of the jail.

 

[dlavigne]

I have tried mounting the data

And how did you try to mount it? By adding storage as described in the Guide? If so, what errors?

 

[Jaknell1011]

This is what I am trying to do:

This is the error I get:

My guess is it is something simple. But I am stuck and now that I am on day 3 of this Crashplan deal. I am hoping someone can point me to a simple fix.

 

[dlavigne]

You haven't selected a volume or dataset for the Source.

 

[Jaknell1011]

I have an ISCSI extent (ext1) in /mnt/Vol1. This is what I am trying to backup with FreeNAS. So I need to be able to see the folder that contains "ext1" in Crashplan. I thought I would mount /mnt/Vol1/ inside of the crashplan Jail and that would work but I am not having any luck. Do I need to MOVE the extent? Is that even possible to do now that it is already built?

**Can I just create a folder called "extent" and move the ext1 into it, and then change the extent location in ISCSI?

Sorry, I am just not too excited about having to move our extent, although by looking at it, it seems like it might be easy.

 

[dlavigne]

At the moment, it is recursive, so can't be mounted. Try creating a dataset under /mnt/Vol1 and moving ext1 into it.

 

[Jaknell1011]

Well it worked and then I screwed myself...

I created a new folder called "extent" inside of Vol1. I then cut and pasted the extent into the folder, and updated the ISCSI extent and everything was working, including the mount. I had also created a test extent folder with a mount. The mount started working and I saw it in Crashplan. I did not want to use a folder called "test" as my mountpoint, so I changed it to "extent". I then deleted the mount folder called "test" and when I did this, it deleted my extent. I cannot see it, but for some reason a VM that I am running off of the ISCSI target is still running, so I know the data is still working but I cannot see it in FreeNAS.

Any ideas on how I can fix this? Part of me says reboot, but another part of me says if I reboot I may lose my chance at recovery.

 

[dlavigne]

Ouch!

Can you still see the data in Shell using ls? If so, you could make another dataset and copy it there, just to be on the safe side.

 

[Jaknell1011]

I cannot see it in shell. The weird thing is my VMs are still working (they use the FreeNAS ISCSI target). So I am downloading ALL of my VMs and data onto another NAS I have here (7TB total) and will then look into what is going on with this extent. I figure if I can backup all my VMs and data, then I will try to reboot freenas and see if it shows up. If not, I will rebuild a new extent, then copy all of my data back over. I will lose a couple of days in doing this but at least I did not lose my data.

 

[bluonek]

And how did you try to mount it? By adding storage as described in the Guide? If so, what errors?

Where is this guide you speak of? I've been searching all day only to find guides that were either incomplete, outdated, inaccurate, and or targeted towards BSD experts (kinda defeats the purpose of FreeNAS, no?). Anyway, if you know of such a guide that is complete, current, accurate and targeted towards the "80%" FreeNAS user base (read: not a BSD expert) please share.

thnx
b1k

ps. sorry for the necro, but i've been running in circles and this is the first i've see "the guide" mentioned.