Hey team,
i am currently running a truenas 13.0-U6.2 and i am wanting to move everything over to my server running Dragonfish 24.04.2.5.
i am trying to run a replication task from the new box but i keep receiving this error: “Dataset ‘xxxxxxxxx’ does not have any matching snapshots to replicate.”
what would be the best way to just duplicate everything from the old server to the new server?
cheers
thanks for the feedback.
Use tmux in the command-line to do it manually?
Even with all the information you provided, I’m not really sure.
Need better details. If you are blanking out screenshots, make alias names or something.
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never used that cmd before. i guess i could manually copy everything over manually but was hoping to automate it and copy the data while i sleep.
maybe i should create a snapshot on the old box and then try again tomorrow?
i am not seeing any way to manually start a snapshot, am i missing the “run now” option
Dataset ‘Z6/testfiles’ does not have any matching snapshots to replicate.
i am thinking that the replication task would do the snapshot in the background. i am thinking of manually creating a snapshot on the old box and then trying the replication task again on the new server?
You should go review the documents for the version of TrueNAS you’re on. There are also videos on YouTube by Stux that cover some replication of data from one system to another. Snapshot is necessary
so after some frustrating hours and days. it looks like manually using robocopy to copy the files over and recreating the shares is going to be the faster way.
once that is done then I will look into setting up the old box as an offsite backup.
cheers and thanks
Yes, you should have made a snapshot on the server you wanted to do the pull from.
You can only run replication on snapshots.
i have tried to set up a replication… been two days now and still not complete. when i attempt the replication it still says no snapshot found. i am not sure how to force a snapshot to run.
You don’t create a snapshot in the replication wizard.
There is a guide on how to make a manual one-off snapshot in the official docs, specifically the “Creating a Single Snapshot” headline:
Thanks Neo, thats exactly what i did but it doesnt seem to be doing anything:
sizes have not changed and new box still shows no snapshots
i am expecting the used size to increase?
Your second screenshot is so cropped I can only guess what the cause is, but if I were to do that it would be that your naming scheme is set incorrectly.
it was the default settings, i just choose the dataset. when i click on the ? i get this tidbit: Generate a name for the snapshot using the naming schema from a previously created Periodic Snapshot Task . This allows the snapshot to be replicated. Cannot be used with a Name .
i do not have any periodic snapshots
I think that refers to regularly scheduled snapshots and not doing a manual snapshot of your dataset. Your screenshot hints to manual snapshot creation.
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