Changing from push to pull replication

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I am reworking the way my zfs backup works and want to go from a push based backup to a pull based backup.
When I try to setup this by creating a new replication task on the backup nas, I get this error:

Destination Snapshots Are Not Related to Replicated Snapshots
Destination dataset does not contain any snapshots that can be used as a basis for the incremental changes in the snapshots being sent. The snapshots in the destination dataset will be deleted and the replication will begin with a complete initial copy.

I really don’t want to start over replicating this from scratch. Is there any way for it to adopt or recognize these snapshots that is already there? The backup nas is on a very slow connection and I really want the snapshot histories.

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Carefully check the naming scheme of the snapshots.

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Thanks! That did put me in the right direction. I had multiple sources pointing to /data/backup before, but now I tried creating one of them directly to /data/backup/Pictures. Changing it to the same /data/backup path solved it :slight_smile:

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