stevecyb
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I'm trying to get my Mini XL+ to replicate my stuff to a USB drive.
First I tried to create the pool on the USB drive on a Linux box, because the ZFS utility there seems to have fewer features (whatever that means) than the NAS. I did this after reading a few things Arwen wrote on a thread, long ago. (A couple of weeks ago, I had successfully created a pool on a USB drive on the NAS, then was able to mount it on the Linux system but it complained about something or other and I attributed it to the ZFS utility being behind on features.)
Anyhow, going in that direction, the USB drive was totally unreadable by the NAS; the NAS wouldn't import it or even acknowledge there was a pool on it.
So I used the NAS to create the drive. I then did a replication TO the USB drive, and it seems to have completed successfully. Looking at replication tasks in the GUI, everything is shown as up-to-date.
One thing that struck me as odd, however, is that the icon in the top bar that indicates a replication is in progress is still wagging side-to-side...though I can't find such a task running.
Anyhow, I exported/disconnected the USB drive, took it over to the Linux box to try to mount it...and ZFS there refuses to mount it on the grounds that there are insufficient replications.
I can't find anything here about this error. So, what's going on?
1) What might I have done wrong creating the pool on my Linux box?
2) (More importantly) how did I mess up the replication? Why is that darn icon indicating a replication is in progress even though all the replication tasks in the table look to have completed?
First I tried to create the pool on the USB drive on a Linux box, because the ZFS utility there seems to have fewer features (whatever that means) than the NAS. I did this after reading a few things Arwen wrote on a thread, long ago. (A couple of weeks ago, I had successfully created a pool on a USB drive on the NAS, then was able to mount it on the Linux system but it complained about something or other and I attributed it to the ZFS utility being behind on features.)
Anyhow, going in that direction, the USB drive was totally unreadable by the NAS; the NAS wouldn't import it or even acknowledge there was a pool on it.
So I used the NAS to create the drive. I then did a replication TO the USB drive, and it seems to have completed successfully. Looking at replication tasks in the GUI, everything is shown as up-to-date.
One thing that struck me as odd, however, is that the icon in the top bar that indicates a replication is in progress is still wagging side-to-side...though I can't find such a task running.
Anyhow, I exported/disconnected the USB drive, took it over to the Linux box to try to mount it...and ZFS there refuses to mount it on the grounds that there are insufficient replications.
I can't find anything here about this error. So, what's going on?
1) What might I have done wrong creating the pool on my Linux box?
2) (More importantly) how did I mess up the replication? Why is that darn icon indicating a replication is in progress even though all the replication tasks in the table look to have completed?
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