SOLVED Solved with re-install of OS -- Periodic Snapshot task does not appear to run

[CPP-IT]

Hey all.

I installed FreeNAS on this computer in September of last year. Today after upgrading to 11.2 I thought I'd check in on my pool's snapshot status.

See the results: (moved to an attachment- "zfs-list-snapshot-output-2018-12-12.txt")

You can see, there have been no snapshots in quite some time on my pool.
The boot devices are snapshot correctly, for which I am glad, but this is weird.
Attached is an example of a snapshot task setup.

What am I missing? How do I make sure the service is doing what I expect?

 

[dlavigne]

Were you able to resolve this?

 

[CPP-IT]

I have not yet. I've unfortunately had to attend other aspects of my position and have not been able to give this the needed focus.

But I was under the impression that the Periodic tasks were from of FreeBSD base, and should be nearly bullet proof. Is there a setting in the UI that I'm not seeing?

I'm sure there's a Terminal command for it, but I haven't found it, yet. I hopefully will be able to dig into it a bit today. /me fingers crossed

 

[CPP-IT]

But I was under the impression that the Periodic tasks were from of FreeBSD base, and should be nearly bullet proof. Is there a setting in the UI that I'm not seeing?

In the name of experimentation I have done the following:

1. Deleted all old/existing snapshot tasks
2. created a single new task with the following settings:
   1. Code:

      Pool/Dataset    --    zpool
      Recursive        --    yes
      When            --    From: 06:00 to 20:00
      Frequency        --    Every 5 minutes
      Keep Snapshot    --    2 hour
      Dayofweek        --    (Everyday except Sunday)
      Enabled            --    yes
      

      
      
3. Today I did a zfs list -t snapshot -- And there were no new snapshots
4. I manually did a zfs snapshot -r zpool@test_snap and it behaved as expected

I must be missing something. And I'm really new to all this so I'm not sure were to look next.

 

[dlavigne]

Please create a report at bugs.freenas.org and post the issue number here.

 

[CPP-IT]

To put a bow on this thread.

I had the time and the backups to safely delete and re-install the current FreeNAS 11.2 STABLE.

After doing so and rebuilding the ZFS pool, the snapshots are working exactly as expected.

Thanks to all who gave their input, and to the IX engineers who support this great system.