I recently went from Core to Scale and so far im loving it but it broke the most random thing for me. I use Acronis to control some of my backups from a windows 11 machine and I am having issues with setting acronnis to pull files from truenas shares to any other location or even back to the nas to a different share and it now says “It may be blocked by another application.” I have already made sure that truenas is full access read/write and no locking happening for files in smb using smbstatus. Does any other suggestions? I also would like to know if there is a more effective way to save files from my truenas to another nas that is not zfs? have not really messed with rsync maybe that would work. I just really dont want to have this issue where acronis cant copy files from my share at all anymore. As another note I can copy form and to the drive just fine when its a windows network drive.
Before offering too much wrong advice, I want to make sure I understand what you have said.
You use Acronis True Image on your Windoze computer.
Question: Is this a backup of the system? And what version of Acronis are you using?
When you are using Windoze, with the TrueNAS share mapped to a drive letter, it works fine. Is that true?
In my experiences with Acronis True Image 2018 (the last version I bought before the stupid subscriptions came about), I am also able to use the Mapped Drive method. I have had no luck using the IP Address method. I had it working once a long time ago, something changed, then it didn’t work. I went with a method that seems pretty fool proof right now, mapping the drive share.
That is not the answer that you probably wanted, but Acronis does work reliably this way.
Rsync very well may be the right path for you. I do not use Rsync myself right now but many people do. And ZFS will play no role in using Rsync.
Here is one way to do things if you want to do it via your Windows machine, use Sync Toys. If you have mapped drives, it works well. It is slower but if you run it weekly or daily, it should not need to transfer a lot of data. But if you want it fully automated between the two NAS’s, then Rsync is probably the better way to go.
I hope the Acronis part helps some. If you figure a way to make the NAS IP addresses work, let me know, I’d like to try it out.
Oh yes, the Blocked messages could be from your firewall. The firewall on the Windoze machine or your router. It is possible. You would need to disable the firewall to know for certain.
I had this same error from ATI 2020 backing up from a TrueNas SMB share. In my case it was because the file itself was “blocked” by Windows and needed to be unblocked. Open the files’ properties and tick the unblock box, or run a powershell script similar to gci -Recurse | Unblock-File in the root(s) of your backup task.
