SOLVED Plugin uninstalled - missing jail! Restore possible?

[docmathoc]

So I've been using FreeNAS with NextCloud for a while and I thought it was all pretty clear. Just now I mistakenly uninstalled the NextCloud plugin, while looking for a reason why it has stopped working.
The jail that contained the nextcloud plugin has now gone. I am running daily snapshots and it appears there are no snapshots of the jail either.
Has the plugin uninstall process really removed the jail? If so, is it in any of the volume snapshots so I can get the contents back?

I tried at length to find a specific answer to this and learnt a lot about snapshots, jails and plugins - but no specifics to help me.

Please repost or move or signpost as you wish to help a noob on the forum. Many thanks.

 

[danb35]

Removing a plugin removes its corresponding jail. A jail is a dataset. When you destroy a dataset, you delete all snapshots of that dataset as well.

 

[docmathoc]

Hmmm
So it's all gone, then :(

How would I configure a jail so that it is backed up? Are there built-in tasks for that in FreeNAS?

Thanks.

 

[danb35]

How would I configure a jail so that it is backed up?

Best way is probably to run a local replication task--it would keep a copy of your jails dataset somewhere else (wherever you choose). Local replication is more complicated than it should be to set up, but not too tricky.

 

[docmathoc]

I shall look into it.
At least most material in nextcloud was stored on other volumes and the live material is replicated on client machines, so nothing got lost.
Thanks for the help!

 

[Jailer]

Try running a manual install instead. @Joshua Parker Ruehlig has an excellent tutorial for just such a thing. It's for Owncloud, but the install procedure is identical.

 

[docmathoc]

@Jailer perfect signpost for next time.