Will reboot stops the running tasks, or are there more appropriate way of stopping the running tasks?

[jinlsui]

I just started learning to use TASKS features in TrueNAS, and wonder what will happen to my running Rsync tasks if I do a local or remote reboot. In fact, I was trying to stop the running tasks and wondered if a local or remote NAS reboot will stop them all, properly. I have not been able to find any 'abort' or related options on the GUI to stop the Rsync tasks. I am trying to reconfigure the Rsync tasks, as I am getting to know them better over time.

Actually, I think an 'abort' command on the GUI is rather important to many of these tasks. Earlier on, I tried the 'replication' task and soon realized that my dataset was too big to finish in time. I tried to stop it but was not able to find a proper way to stop it. In addition, I soon realized that the replication is a 'dataset' level data block move, not a file-level transfer in a shared dataset. Before the replication is properly completed and the dataset is properly mounted, the partially transferred dataset will not be visible and may cause potential issues if a user is not aware of it and/or doesn't know how to deal with it.

I hope advanced users can provide some advice on this.

 

[sretalla]

A reboot will stop running tasks. Depending on how those tasks are set they may continue without issue after the reboot.

Replication uses snapshots, so there's no danger of a problem if there's an interruption before replication of a particular snapshot can complete. That snapshot simply won't be available to become part of the dataset (since it's incomplete), so nothing will have changed since the previous snapshot on the replica side.

 

[jinlsui]

On that replication task, I did notice a few things that did not seem be to explained so:1) the replication restarted by itself without me restart it after both sides were rebooted;, 2) after I changed the remote NAS IP, it obviously was unable to continue, but my remote storage space missed a few 100G. I had to rebuilt the pool to get a clean start.