Quickly disabling replication tasks

[MatthewSteinhoff]

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Disable all replication tasks with one click. Enable all replication tasks with one click. Or, if not one click, at least all at once.

(We have nine replicated data sets. When we update the replication target or take it offline for maintenance, the primary starts sending 'Critical Alerts' email letting us know the replication is failing, about one a minute, until the target is back online. This is obnoxious. But not as obnoxious as going into nine replication tasks and disabling them then having to remember to enable them.)

Cheers,
Matt

 

[Johnny Fartpants]

Disable all replication tasks with one click. Enable all replication tasks with one click. Or, if not one click, at least all at once.

(We have nine replicated data sets. When we update the replication target or take it offline for maintenance, the primary starts sending 'Critical Alerts' email letting us know the replication is failing, about one a minute, until the target is back online. This is obnoxious. But not as obnoxious as going into nine replication tasks and disabling them then having to remember to enable them.)

Cheers,
Matt

Out of interest why do you have nine replication streams? Could you just snapshot & replicate the parent dataset of them all and set recursive?

 

[MatthewSteinhoff]

Different datasets have different snapshot and replication requirements. Some snaphots only exist a week others for three months; some get snapshots every 15 minutes, some once a day. Some snapshots we want replicated immediately others wait until after normal business hours.

(This question really goes to one of my strongest FreeNAS concerns... is the FreeNAS future a consumer product or an enterprise product? The pre-11 GUI was clearly enterprise in nature. No frills and lean. It was designed for functionality and allowed those with multiple datasets, volumes, interfaces, etc. to see those things easily and from one screen. The post-11 interface is flashy and consumer-oriented, will look good on the side of a box and in product reviews but doesn't have the information density or clarity necessary for those of us with installations beyond a single volume, single dataset, single interface, single replication task. I fear the utility of FreeNAS at the SMB level is being hurt by implementing the consumer grade GUI. Yes, I know the core is mostly the same. But management is done through the GUI and the new GUI is horrible for larger installations.)

Cheers,
Matt

 

[Johnny Fartpants]

That makes sense. Just wanted to make sure you weren't missing a trick.