Hello -
I have two TrueNAS systems connected with a SSH connection within a Site-to-Site IPSEC tunnel and I would like to backup System A (source) to System B (target) through replication tasks. The two systems are > 2500 miles apart and it is not feasible to bring System A to System B. I have about 90% of the data already on System B.
I have successfully started the replication task on System A confirming the setup works and the two systems can talk to each other. The issue is it requires a "from scratch" replication as "no incremental base was found on dataset [target dataset]" and the "Synchronize Destination Snapshots with Source" option was required to be enabled (this destroys all snapshots on the target dataset).
As this is several terabytes worth of data and the bandwidth of the IPSEC tunnel is severely limited, this could take months. As I have most of the data already on the target system, just not as snapshots from the source system, is there a way to take snapshots on System B and allow the replication task to see a base? The incremental data to be sent through the replication task will be small enough that after the initial backup, the limited bandwidth will not be an issue.
I created a local replication task on and replicated the data on the System B to a new dataset, targeted the new dataset with the remote replication task from System A to the same issue of "no incremental base was found..." error when attempting the remote replication.
Thanks in advance - I hope this isn't something simple I am missing.
I have two TrueNAS systems connected with a SSH connection within a Site-to-Site IPSEC tunnel and I would like to backup System A (source) to System B (target) through replication tasks. The two systems are > 2500 miles apart and it is not feasible to bring System A to System B. I have about 90% of the data already on System B.
I have successfully started the replication task on System A confirming the setup works and the two systems can talk to each other. The issue is it requires a "from scratch" replication as "no incremental base was found on dataset [target dataset]" and the "Synchronize Destination Snapshots with Source" option was required to be enabled (this destroys all snapshots on the target dataset).
As this is several terabytes worth of data and the bandwidth of the IPSEC tunnel is severely limited, this could take months. As I have most of the data already on the target system, just not as snapshots from the source system, is there a way to take snapshots on System B and allow the replication task to see a base? The incremental data to be sent through the replication task will be small enough that after the initial backup, the limited bandwidth will not be an issue.
I created a local replication task on and replicated the data on the System B to a new dataset, targeted the new dataset with the remote replication task from System A to the same issue of "no incremental base was found..." error when attempting the remote replication.
Thanks in advance - I hope this isn't something simple I am missing.