dbrannon79
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Hello all, I need some help fixing a replication task that was once working.
a little details on my systems. I have two rack servers one as the main and the second as a backup unit
the first is a Dell R720 with a pool of 8 disk named "main" within this pool I have several data sets which I have setup for different users along with some open to all on my network.
The second is an old Cisco C200 1u server with a pool of 4 disks named "Storage" this server is only used as a backup of all from the main server. I do have some smb shares setup so I can actually look at the files making sure they are backed up and there.
One of the things I did setup on the task was I utilized a separate Nic port on each server with a ethernet crossover cable giving each a static IP so the two servers could talk to each other without loading my entire network when backing up data. this seemed to work find at least on the first run of the replication task
on the Dell main server I have periodic snapshots setup for daily at midnight and are kept for 2 weeks (same settings for the other server) a replication task is setup to ssh into the Cisco server and push all data into it, it's scheduled to do this every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 3am.
I also have some scheduled smart tests setup for it as well as for the Cisco server but I think that is irrelevant to this problem though the schedule times are far away from when the replication takes place.
when I first set this replication task up it was all working or at least to my knowledge it was until I started getting fail notifications. when I looked I saw that the clock was off about 3 hours on the Cisco server, not sure what caused this, but I fixed it and manually started the snapshots task for both servers so they'd both have fresh ones with the same time.
after this I started the replication task and it showed completed without errors, BUT it did not copy over any new files into the Cisco server's pool. when I opened the folders in windows on my desktop I saw where I had added a ton of music into one of the media folders on the Dell and they were not there in the Cisco server (about 1tb worth of data)
without any errors to look at, what can I do to possibly fix this. I am honestly questioning if the replication has been pushing any data since the first run when it pushed everything at once.
if needed I can post some screen shots of the task settings if that helps.
I really appreciate any help here :)
a little details on my systems. I have two rack servers one as the main and the second as a backup unit
the first is a Dell R720 with a pool of 8 disk named "main" within this pool I have several data sets which I have setup for different users along with some open to all on my network.
The second is an old Cisco C200 1u server with a pool of 4 disks named "Storage" this server is only used as a backup of all from the main server. I do have some smb shares setup so I can actually look at the files making sure they are backed up and there.
One of the things I did setup on the task was I utilized a separate Nic port on each server with a ethernet crossover cable giving each a static IP so the two servers could talk to each other without loading my entire network when backing up data. this seemed to work find at least on the first run of the replication task
on the Dell main server I have periodic snapshots setup for daily at midnight and are kept for 2 weeks (same settings for the other server) a replication task is setup to ssh into the Cisco server and push all data into it, it's scheduled to do this every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 3am.
I also have some scheduled smart tests setup for it as well as for the Cisco server but I think that is irrelevant to this problem though the schedule times are far away from when the replication takes place.
when I first set this replication task up it was all working or at least to my knowledge it was until I started getting fail notifications. when I looked I saw that the clock was off about 3 hours on the Cisco server, not sure what caused this, but I fixed it and manually started the snapshots task for both servers so they'd both have fresh ones with the same time.
after this I started the replication task and it showed completed without errors, BUT it did not copy over any new files into the Cisco server's pool. when I opened the folders in windows on my desktop I saw where I had added a ton of music into one of the media folders on the Dell and they were not there in the Cisco server (about 1tb worth of data)
without any errors to look at, what can I do to possibly fix this. I am honestly questioning if the replication has been pushing any data since the first run when it pushed everything at once.
if needed I can post some screen shots of the task settings if that helps.
I really appreciate any help here :)