Proper way to delete snapshot

[patrick sullivan]

Hello

I am having problems deleting or removing a snapshot that I created awhile back. I read the manual, and it looks extremely straight forward, but I receive an error whenever I try to delete it. I don't know the exact error message, but it mentions the owncloud plugin. I tried unactivating that plugin before deleting the snapshot, but no luck. Is there a step that I must do before hitting the delete/destroy snapshot button?

Cheers

 

[SweetAndLow]

what is the error message?

 

[patrick sullivan]

Again, I appologize, but I don't remember. I am at work. I can post it tonight. The main question is if there is a precursor to deleting the snapshot? Something I need to do first?

Cheers
Patrick

 

[SweetAndLow]

No

 

[patrick sullivan]

Thank You!

 

[rogerh]

Could the dataset to be deleted be mounted on a directory in the plugin jail? Or part of a dataset that is so mounted? If so, it needs unmounting rather than just stopping the plugin running.

 

[patrick sullivan]

I have two snapshots that provided two different errors:

cannot destroy 'vdev/jails/.warden-template-pluginjail@clean': snapshot has dependent clones use '-R' to destroy the following datasets: vdev/jails/

cannot destroy 'vdev/jails/.warden-template-pluginjail-9.2-x64@clean': snapshot has dependent clones use '-R' to destroy the following datasets: vdev/jails/owncloud_1

 

[SweetAndLow]

Looks like jails use snapshots when they get created. So as long as you have your jails still you can't remove those snapshots. I'm not sure how this actually works but that is how it appears.

 

[patrick sullivan]

I tried to destroy both datasets, but I receive the same message in the storage tab. So, I can't destroy the dataset, or the snapshot? What does the "-R" mean?

 

[SweetAndLow]

did you try removing the jail from the gui? then destroy the snapshots then the jail dataset?

 

[patrick sullivan]

It's weird. These datasets do not appear in the jails tab. I am not sure when they were created. I believe during a plugin install. Regardless, I can't seem to destroy them. They are the two above owncloud

 

[SweetAndLow]

do you have plugins or jails installed? you will need to remove them before you can delete those two snapshots.

 

[patrick sullivan]

Ugh!!....Thanks SweetAndLo. Appreciate your help...