Replication on PULL side says "0 snapshots found"

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I'm testing the replication feature from one FreeNAS box (Main) to another FreeNAS box (Backup).

I was successful in setting up the SSH Connection from the 'Backup' box to the 'Main' box (although I couldn't from 'Main' to 'Backup' which I thought was strange).

In any event, I have a snap shot at: 'pool/important-data' and I have created a periodic snap shot of this dataset. It shows up in my 'Main' FreeNAS box in the snapshots with "auto" in the snapshot name (ie: 'auto-2020-04-29_19-00') and when I click on it I can see it references 100GB. This is on the 'Main' system. The snap shot is there on Main of the pool/important-data dataset (there are no sub datasets of important-data for this test).

I went over to my 'Backup' FreeNAS box, created a new dataset at 'backuppool/replication' and then went to Replication page. I used the drop down of SSH Connection to select the 'Main' box and then the Source dataset tree populated (so I know it is successfully SSH'ing into 'Main' FROM 'Backup'). I then go down the tree to find 'pool/important-data' and upon check marking that dataset it displays in red "0 snapshots found." It will let me continue by selecting Destionation (on this system) and finding the 'backuppool/replication' dataset, next, complete, etc.

When the task comes up it FINISHES but says STATE column "Running" in orange/yellow followed by "Finished" in Green. Of course, it did this all within a second (and not 100GB worth of data transfer) and when I check the 'backuppool/replication' dataset there is absolutely nothing in there. I was expecting to see Main's "important-data" dataset in read only mode but there was nothing.

The problem MAY have something to do with when I try to setup the semi-automatic SSH Connection from 'Main' to 'Backup' it times out. However when I did 'Backup' to 'Main' it was successful which is why I am initating al of this from the 'Backup' side as a PULL rather than a PUSH. But again, a PULL from 'Backup' from 'Main' in replication DOES populate Main's pool and datasets to choose from so seems like SSH is talking

Any suggestions?

 

[AlcSi]

Same issue here. Didn't test a PUSH yet, but the from the PULL side, with a working SSH connection, it shows '0 snapshots found' when selecting folders, be it with "Recursive" enabled, or not.
Note that I double checked that there are snapshots on the 'pulled' side (the 'Main' server; to use the same terminology as OP).

EDIT: From PUSH side, I am able to create an SSH connection too, but it tells me there are no snapshots either !
As it will create them, I'm guessing it's OK and will work, but, can someone give insight as to why it doesn't see/use the existing snapshots I've been doing daily for years ? Or is it simply expected behaviour ?