winnielinnie
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t's even worse for Core. At least SCALE has filled in some of these voids in its appliance's GUI.
As an example. How do you protect a snapshot in TrueNAS from destruction?
Core: Drop into an SSH session. Use the
zfs hold customtag dataset@snapshot
command. Better get used to using auto-complete for the snapshot names. Oh, that's right. You'll need to manually list and sort your snapshots to get a decent view, so that you can target the desired one.SCALE: Visit the Snapshots page and find your snapshot. Check the "Hold" checkbox.
How to you remove a snapshot's protection?
Core: Drop into an SSH session. Find the snapshot that is being held. (Either you know it specifically, or you'll have to use a combination of "zfs list + holds + xargs" to find them.) Then you need to issue the
zfs release customtag dataset@snapshot
command.SCALE: Visit the Snapshots page. Uncheck the "Hold" checkbox.
You get the idea. (To add insult to injury, the "Shell" in Core is nearly unusable.)
Sure, I'm a Linux user, but I do love the GUI way more than using the terminal. The problem is, the GUI in TrueNAS lacks many reasonable tools. (Especially for Core.)
I get that we're veering off topic, so I'll shut up now.