SOLVED Periodic snapshot not working

[JaMu]

Hi,

I am running the latest version of FreeNAS and have setup a periodic snapshot of a dataset, however, it does not appear to be happening. When I click on the snapshots tab there is nothing listed. I have attached a screen shot of the snapshot settings.

I was expecting it to take one snapshot a day at 3am and then keep it for a week. What am I doing wrong?

Thanks,
James.

 

[nojohnny101]

Your settings look fine but can you give us a more detailed explanation about any error messages you see?

Also, where are you replicating to? Are you replicating locally or to a remote machine?

 

[JaMu]

Your settings look fine but can you give us a more detailed explanation about any error messages you see?

Also, where are you replicating to? Are you replicating locally or to a remote machine?

Thanks for your quick reply!

I don't see any error messages anywhere, however, I am quite new to FreeNAS so is there somewhere I should be looking for this apart from in the console?

I am not replicating it remotely. Do I have to setup a local destination to replicate to separately?

Thanks,
James.

 

[JaMu]

Your settings look fine but can you give us a more detailed explanation about any error messages you see?

Also, where are you replicating to? Are you replicating locally or to a remote machine?

Thanks for your quick reply!

I don't see any error messages anywhere, however, I am quite new to FreeNAS so is there somewhere I should be looking for this apart from in the console?

I am not replicating it remotely. Do I have to setup a local destination to replicate to separately?

Thanks,
James.

I do see the following message repeated in the log a couple of times. I am not sure if it is related.

Code:

Jan  4 03:00:30 FreeNAS01 afpd[31150]: read: Operation timed out
Jan  4 03:00:30 FreeNAS01 afpd[31150]: dsi_stream_read: len:-1, Operation timed out
Jan  4 03:00:30 FreeNAS01 afpd[31150]: dsi_stream_send: Broken pipe
Jan  4 03:00:30 FreeNAS01 afpd[31150]: dsi_wrtreply: Broken pipe
Jan  4 03:00:30 FreeNAS01 afpd[31150]: dsi_disconnect: entering disconnected state
Jan  4 03:00:30 FreeNAS01 afpd[31150]: dsi_disconnect: entering disconnected state

Jan  5 02:01:55 FreeNAS01 afpd[61112]: read: Operation timed out
Jan  5 02:01:55 FreeNAS01 afpd[61112]: dsi_stream_read: len:-1, Operation timed out
Jan  5 02:01:55 FreeNAS01 afpd[61112]: dsi_stream_send: Broken pipe
Jan  5 02:01:55 FreeNAS01 afpd[61112]: dsi_wrtreply: Broken pipe
Jan  5 02:01:55 FreeNAS01 afpd[61112]: dsi_disconnect: entering disconnected state
Jan  5 02:01:55 FreeNAS01 afpd[61112]: dsi_disconnect: entering disconnected state

 

[JaMu]

I do see the following message repeated in the log a couple of times. I am not sure if it is related.

Jan 4 03:00:30 FreeNAS01 afpd[31150]: read: Operation timed out
Jan 4 03:00:30 FreeNAS01 afpd[31150]: dsi_stream_read: len:-1, Operation timed out
Jan 4 03:00:30 FreeNAS01 afpd[31150]: dsi_stream_send: Broken pipe
Jan 4 03:00:30 FreeNAS01 afpd[31150]: dsi_wrtreply: Broken pipe
Jan 4 03:00:30 FreeNAS01 afpd[31150]: dsi_disconnect: entering disconnected state
Jan 4 03:00:30 FreeNAS01 afpd[31150]: dsi_disconnect: entering disconnected state

Jan 5 02:01:55 FreeNAS01 afpd[61112]: read: Operation timed out
Jan 5 02:01:55 FreeNAS01 afpd[61112]: dsi_stream_read: len:-1, Operation timed out
Jan 5 02:01:55 FreeNAS01 afpd[61112]: dsi_stream_send: Broken pipe
Jan 5 02:01:55 FreeNAS01 afpd[61112]: dsi_wrtreply: Broken pipe
Jan 5 02:01:55 FreeNAS01 afpd[61112]: dsi_disconnect: entering disconnected state
Jan 5 02:01:55 FreeNAS01 afpd[61112]: dsi_disconnect: entering disconnected state

It looks like these messages are related to a Time Machine share and are unrelated to the snapshot issue.

Does anyone have any ideas what could be causing the periodic snapshots not to happen? Manual snapshot work fine.

Thanks.

 

[wblock]

Does the time on the FreeNAS system match the local time?

 

[JaMu]

Does the time on the FreeNAS system match the local time?

Yes it does.

 

[MrToddsFriends]

Does anyone have any ideas what could be causing the periodic snapshots not to happen? Manual snapshot work fine.

Perhaps this bug in FreeNAS-9.10.2
https://bugs.freenas.org/issues/19754

 

[JaMu]

Good find, thanks. This does sound like the issue I am experiencing. I have not had any snapshots configured prior to 9.10.2 so I can not verify that they were working before the update but, they are not working on 9.10.2.

Vaibhav Chauhan said "... have reverted 79bd0e586281a7fbb1f0f6b95e4ddbd39a94cf5e which should fix the issue." He also has changed the status to "Ready for Release". Does anyone have an idea of when this update may be released?

Thanks.

 

[MrToddsFriends]

9.10.2-U1 is due by 02/06/2017
https://bugs.freenas.org/projects/freenas/roadmap

But well, all 48 currently listed issues are already closed ...

 

[nojohnny101]

@JaMu
Do you have an overly complicate setup? Depending on how important this is to you, you could just install an older version of FreeNAS and see if you don't encounter any errors.

By "do you see any errors" I meant on the replication tab of the GUI. What message does it say there?

 

[JaMu]

@MrToddsFriends
Thanks for the info, I guess I'll expect it in the first half of Feb but hope for it sooner.

@nojohnny101
My setup is fairly straight forward but I will probably just wait for the update. Out of interest, if I wanted to rollback to the previously installed version couldn't I just activate it from the System->Boot menu? There are no messages under the replication tab, it is completely empty. The only thing it says, right at the top, is "ATTENTION: A periodic snapshot of a given ZFS Volume/Dataset is required to create a replication task"

Just out of interest, are there many others out there that are experiencing this bug?

Thank you all for your help.

 

[MrToddsFriends]

Just out of interest, are there many others out there that are experiencing this bug?

Not all users that have automatic snapshots configured in 9.10.2 are affected. It seems to depend on the schedule itself if snapshots are executed delayed or not at all. On my system, all snapshots and replications are executed 31min late, which isn't troublesome for me (6:31/12:31/18:31 instead of 6:00/12:00/18:00).

Some of my snapshot configuration details:
Begin: 06:00:00
End: 23:00:00
Interval: 6 hours

 

[Johan H]

I also got this problem... First discovered on a fresh installed system, that immediately was updated to 9.10.2 before configuration. I spent hours and hours trying to get the snapshots working.

After finding this thread, I also checked my three other systems that recently was updated to 9.10.2.
Snapshots has stopped working on all of them.

How do I revert to the previous version of FreeNAS? I can't wait for the bugfix (mid Feb)..

If I go to "System/Boot" on my last installed system, I can select "Initial-Install" and "Activate".
If I do this, will the system boot the older version then?
No problem with config files etc?
Never had to use this "revert to older version" function before, just want to be sure.

Thanks.

 

[Kevin Horton]

Don't give up on 9.10.2 yet.

The snapshots on my upgraded system had also stopped working. I eventually deleted those periodic snapshot tasks, and made new ones. The new periodic snapshot tasks are working correctly.

 

[Johan H]

That's not the situation on my systems. They don't work, even if recreated. Some of the systems shapshots are also way to many and complex to just reconfigure "just for testing".

Anyone that could confirm on how to revert to older version, without losing any settings/data/etc?

 

[Robert Trevellyan]

Anyone that could confirm on how to revert to older version

Use the System -> Boot tab to select a previous boot environment.

 

[JaMu]

9.10.2-U1 has now been released. I have just updated and created a test periodic snapshot, it worked as expected. I appears that this bug has been resolved in 9.10.2-U1.

 

[nathcomp]

Hello,

Please, what is last status?

Is repaired the creating of snapshots?

Because I am using this build:

FreeNAS-9.10.2-U2 (e1497f2)

And I have exactly same problem as author.

Martin

 

[Ericloewe]

Snapshots and replication are working normally for everyone, as far as I've seen.