Hello. Now I'am designing datastore infrastructure for virtual environment. Planning to use one FN as the main DS, and second one as backup. Backup is replicated by snapshots from the main. The idea is in case disaster on primary DS instantly promote backup to the primary simply by changing it's...

Limit not working? I like the idea of this thing finishing quickly, but it's going over a 1G transport circuit and need to minimize the impact, even if it means running longer. Thanks!

Hello, I have two Freenas storage servers, old one using iscsi zvol used by Xen server with 3 luns , new Freenas storage ,instead of zvol decided to use NFS to store all vms. My issue is when i try to migrate all vm from iscsi to nfs , while trying do it directly from Xen console its fails , so...

My basic setup is two Freenas boxes (one on 11.1 u5 [Alpha/push] and the other on 11.1 u6 [Beta/pull]). I've created a datastore snapshot on Alpha, replicated that snapshot to Beta all on/under the same network (router). From the Beta I can clone the snapshot, mount it and navigate the files...

I've just successfully sent a zfs pool from my main server to a backup using these commands: On main server: zfs send -vvDRLe mypool@snapshot_20180605_000000 On backup server: zfs receive -vvFsd mypool It copied some 35 TB (mix of datasets, sub-datasets, and zvols) and took about 8 days to...

Because I believe in sharing with others the mistakes I have made in hopes that others can learn from me, here is my latest mistake... I have a FreeNAS Mini XL fully stocked. I had a dataset that contained all of the Veeam backups for our VMware environment. I have a second FreeNAS Mini XL that...

Hi. I would like to ask, how it's about replication of encrypted pool. Is needed to use strong (or any) cipher as decrypted data are transferred, or is already safe as "drive data" (already encrypted) are transferred?

I have been backing up via replication to a FreeNAS-11.1-U2 server ("Backup"). Now I need to rebuild my original server ("Prod") and switch over to Backup as my production server. I assume at cutover I stop all replication on Prod and run zfs set readonly=off <volume> on Backup? Anything else...

Has anyone used syncoid to script replication of ZFS snapshots on FreeNAS? ( https://github.com/jimsalterjrs/sanoid/blob/master/syncoid ) FYI it's a huge perl script that uses zfs commands to do replication tasks. At first glance it looks like it could be really useful, but before I dig into...

I want to expand my main pool (TANK) from 4 disks to 8 disks in RAIDZ2 which if I understand correctly means that I need to destroy the pool and restore the data. I created a backup by using the the automatic snapshot function and then a zfs send/receive from the command line. The following...

I setup VMware snapshots for my ESXi box, however some of them seem to be failing and I do not know how to figure out why. There doesn't seem to be any relation between the VMs that fail and the ones that succeed. I can log into ESXi and create a snapshot successfully for these VMs, but they...

I have a pool made-up of several datasets. Some of the datasets are zvols accessible via iSCSI. I understand that snapshots can be sent to another pool, however I do not know how to use the scheduled snapshots I am making of my "primary" pool as backups. The file names are not static (e.g...

I'm having some odd behavior recently with replication between two FreeNAS boxes (see sig for details). I have been getting almost daily alerts via email with a wide range of replication errors. Some samples: and and Some observations: - When I check the GUI the next morning (replication...

Here is the quick of it: - I have one FreeNAS box replicating to another box that is on a remote site over SSH. - I left some data on the main FreeNAS box that I didn't want replicated (because it is so large and would take forever) and So I had meant to take it out (or temporarily disable the...