freenastier
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- Feb 9, 2017
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Roughly one year ago I build a new FreeNas machine because I would like to have a remote backup of my data. I managed to replicate my data from the old FreeNas server to the new FreeNas server. Then the old FreeNas server moved to a friend. Unfortunately I never got remote replication to work as a backup mechanism, therefore we used the inferior way of copying files manually between the two machines.
Now I have upgraded both machines to FreeNAS 11.1-U1 and tried again if I could get replication to work.
I have created an automatic snapshot task and a replication task. This seems to work because I can see the dataset from the snapshot ending up on the remote FreeNas server. In the web-gui I can see that the file size is shown correctly, however when I ssh to the machine then the contents of the dataset appear to be empty.
What am I doing wrong? Is there a log-file I can see relevant logging of what's going wrong? The files in /var/log do not help me any further.
tl;dr:
I have two FreeNas machines on different locations. The idea is to synchronize the datasets between these two machines. I would like to use automated replication between these two machines, but it does not seem to work properly because I can not see the files on the other machine after a snapshot has been send there. (the web-gui shows correct file size for the snapshot but I can not see the files when looking in the /mnt/PoolName/DataSet directory.
Wat am I doing wrong? Did I misinterpreted the snapshot replication principle? Do I maybe have to mount the snapshots somewhere in order to be able to see them? If so, what happens if I mount them as writable and change some files on the remote site?
Now I have upgraded both machines to FreeNAS 11.1-U1 and tried again if I could get replication to work.
I have created an automatic snapshot task and a replication task. This seems to work because I can see the dataset from the snapshot ending up on the remote FreeNas server. In the web-gui I can see that the file size is shown correctly, however when I ssh to the machine then the contents of the dataset appear to be empty.
What am I doing wrong? Is there a log-file I can see relevant logging of what's going wrong? The files in /var/log do not help me any further.
tl;dr:
I have two FreeNas machines on different locations. The idea is to synchronize the datasets between these two machines. I would like to use automated replication between these two machines, but it does not seem to work properly because I can not see the files on the other machine after a snapshot has been send there. (the web-gui shows correct file size for the snapshot but I can not see the files when looking in the /mnt/PoolName/DataSet directory.
Wat am I doing wrong? Did I misinterpreted the snapshot replication principle? Do I maybe have to mount the snapshots somewhere in order to be able to see them? If so, what happens if I mount them as writable and change some files on the remote site?