Yet again a simple task has led to several hours of searching on google and this forum. Yet again am I met with several easy fixes that does not work for me.
So I figured that I would just rollback to before I started breaking stuff. But apparently I'm not even capable of doing that.
I have read the manual and I do think I understand most of it, but yeah, apparently not.
This is what I think snapshots and rollbacks are:
"Bookmarks" from certain moments in time for a certain datasets that I could be able to recreate if needed. Example:
-Have functional jail with plex. Freenas automatically takes two snapshots everyday of that jail. They can be seen under "Snapshots" in the freenas gui.
-Changes are done to that jail which breaks plex.
-After unsuccessfully trying to fix it the user could instead simply rollback to a snapshot that was automatically taken a couple of hours before the changes were made.
-Plex should now work again.
Have I seriously misunderstood anything or is that how it's supposed to work?
This is what happens when I do a rollback:
Nothing.
This is how I (try) to do it:
1. I press the small arrow next to the snapshot I want to rollback to.
2. I press the "rollback" button.
3. I am told that all later snapshots will be deleted and I'm asked to confirm that I really want to rollback.
4. I press "confirm" and "rollback"
What happens then is:
1. I'm asked by a box to "please wait", the box disappears after a few seconds.
2. Nothing is, as far as I can tell changed.
-All snapshots of that dataset still exists even though the later ones was said to be removed.
-Changes that was made to the dataset after the snapshot are still there.
So I guess what I'm asking is if I have misunderstood something or if it Freenas that doesn't behave like it should?
So I figured that I would just rollback to before I started breaking stuff. But apparently I'm not even capable of doing that.
I have read the manual and I do think I understand most of it, but yeah, apparently not.
This is what I think snapshots and rollbacks are:
"Bookmarks" from certain moments in time for a certain datasets that I could be able to recreate if needed. Example:
-Have functional jail with plex. Freenas automatically takes two snapshots everyday of that jail. They can be seen under "Snapshots" in the freenas gui.
-Changes are done to that jail which breaks plex.
-After unsuccessfully trying to fix it the user could instead simply rollback to a snapshot that was automatically taken a couple of hours before the changes were made.
-Plex should now work again.
Have I seriously misunderstood anything or is that how it's supposed to work?
This is what happens when I do a rollback:
Nothing.
This is how I (try) to do it:
1. I press the small arrow next to the snapshot I want to rollback to.
2. I press the "rollback" button.
3. I am told that all later snapshots will be deleted and I'm asked to confirm that I really want to rollback.
4. I press "confirm" and "rollback"
What happens then is:
1. I'm asked by a box to "please wait", the box disappears after a few seconds.
2. Nothing is, as far as I can tell changed.
-All snapshots of that dataset still exists even though the later ones was said to be removed.
-Changes that was made to the dataset after the snapshot are still there.
So I guess what I'm asking is if I have misunderstood something or if it Freenas that doesn't behave like it should?