Manually Edit Snapshot Task (Won't take snapshot through GUI)

[TurboNewb]

Where can I go to view/edit what the GUI has setup for snapshot tasks? FreeNAS 9.2.1.9

I have one dataset setup and snapshotting perfectly through the GUI. Another dataset setup the same way simply refuses to take a snapshot through the GUI.

So far I have:

• enabled / disabled and made sure the window to snapshot is not restricting.
• made sure the snapshots did not actually exist using "zfs list -t snapshot"
• deleted the task completely from the GUI and re-added it
• Taken a snapshot manually of the problem dataset from the console which worked perfectly

At this point I am just assuming that whatever script the GUI has generated is just screwed and needs to be changed manually, I just don't know where to do that.

Thanks!

 

[dlavigne]

Is there not an Edit button for the highlighted entry for the task in Storage -> ZFS Replication? Edits should be made through the GUI. Also, are you getting any errors when you follow the instructions for Troubleshooting Replication in the 9.2.1 Users Guide?

 

[TurboNewb]

Is there not an Edit button for the highlighted entry for the task in Storage -> ZFS Replication? Edits should be made through the GUI. Also, are you getting any errors when you follow the instructions for Troubleshooting Replication in the 9.2.1 Users Guide?

There is an edit button under "ZFS Snapshots" and that is what I used to Enable the snapshot, edit the time window, etc. No matter what options are check no snapshot ever gets taken for this dataset. It works perfectly for another dataset. Have not looked at troubleshooting replication as there is no snapshot yet to even attempt to replicate.

 

[dlavigne]

My bad, I misread. Anything in /var/log/messages? If not, go to Volumes -> View Volumes and click the Create Snapshot button for the problematic snapshot as it will attempt a one-time snapshot. If that fails, it should put something in /var/log/messages.

 

[TurboNewb]

Alright, this is really strange now. It is giving the warning of out of space. (even though there the pool should be less than 1/2 utilized)

zpool list shows that total size is 3.62T, Alloc 1.77T, and 1.85T Free. Those numbers all make sense as the pool is a set of mirrored 4Tb drives. It is my understanding that the first snapshot should take almost no space and certainly not 100s of gigs. Any idea what could be happening?

 

[dlavigne]

Any quotas? What is the output of zfs list -o space ?

 

[TurboNewb]

The dataset I am trying to snapshot is Mirror4Tb/Mirror4Tb90Pct. Its quota is set at 3.4T

 

[TurboNewb]

And solved. The reserved space for the dataset is only for the dataset. It appears that snapshots require an allocation outside of the reservation hence there was no space.