complete the restoration of my backup (i have at least 3 backup sources. yes i am paranoid than most people, 1 is more than enough. 3-2-1 is the golden standard if you are able to do that, do it)
fine tune truenas settings (double check permissions, tightening insecure settings, etc… just checking anything i overlooked)
restore my docker containers (long term project. won’t be done anytime soon. bit swamped already with doing a lot of work lately on this project xd)
do a speed test for local file transfers between desktop pc and NAS over 10g SFP+ fiber optic (multimode om3 LC to LC) cable. Tools i normally use are iperf, openspteedtest. Or just use windows explorer for a basic test.
setup a backup jobs from TS-877 to TL-253D (TL-D400S) and other backup destinations (i will do this at the very last once i am fully setup. so won’t be done anytime soon)
setting up email notifications for truenas seemed easy. you can either manually input email smtp settings or do the gmail oauth.
done in a few clicks. Then browse to user and add emails for them to receive the notifications. Done.
compared to qnap qts, setting in qnap is also easy, but it’s a bit more nested deeper into settings. They also have something like notification center where you can further fine tune notifications in one single place. not sure about truenas. either way i like the truenas notifications.
hm i see hbs i am maxing 95 MB/s. In the server connection test earlier it said i got like 120-250 or something i forgot. Probably the later because the 253D is 2.5gbe so that is the bottleneck.
As for why its transfering at half of that not sure but it’s fast enough for me.
The real test will be done later. This will be between the TS-877 and desktop pc, both connected to the same switch using SFP+ 10g fiber optic. so i expected this to have the best result.
Back when i was using QNAP QTS for the TS-877, i noticed an issue in smb file explorer when transfering from desktop to NAS, it would be very slow. It throttles down to 50-80 (doesn’t max at 250 MB/s). But when i transfer from NAS to desktop it does 250 MB/s.
So i switched to fiber optic 10g, and noticed the same issue.
Now i’m testing if moving from QTS to truenas makes a difference or not, because i had my suspicions QTS was the culprit but i had no proof. So i’m going to find out soon.
Or the culprit could be windows 11 themselves
they claim it’s been fixed, but some users reported it hasn’t which i too sus might be the case.
truenas UI lag/slowdown to the point it’s very noticeable
before it was fine didn’t notice this. but don’t know why this is now happening. I can’t even restart because i have an active backup job running.
Just how slow is the UI?
Well when trying to login, the login page took 5-10 minutes to properly get to the login page before i could login (after time out for inactivity log out).
Then when i wanted to create a test dataset, it got stuck and wouldn’t let me save. had to wait another 5 minutes or so before i could.
Well the 10gtek Dac arrived. But… the sfp+ om3 lc to lc fiber optic works… so don’t really need it at this point. I’ll still keep it for future projects (DAC is still handy to have around).
For some reason, I haven’t experienced this issue for the last couple days. I’m not sure what triggered the issue to start, or what caused it to go away.
At the time I was experiencing the problems, I was moving 170TB of small files between pools with rsync. Millions of files and directories. Around 2-3 days ago, I started another rsync job of the same amount of data, but it’s very large files so significantly fewer files and folders.
I noticed you said that you were doing a backup – does it also have a lot of small files? Some of the errors I got were related to iwatch/inotify, and I wonder if it’s just getting exhausted?
Hm, when you’re back to the smaller files, maybe it’ll return to slow-mode?
The past couple days I’ve been moving videos ranging from 25-75GB each on average. The UI has been snappy. Prior to that I was moving millions of files, all under 1GB or so, with millions of folders. Maybe exhausted the iwatch and whatever else that middlewared needs to function.
Would be curious to hear if your smaller file restore later causes the issue again. Good luck!
heard a beep then later noticed this in log. I see it’s transfering again. Not sure what happened there.
There is a possibility that the pcie for the sff card is coming loose. But i checked in QTS UI it still detects tl-d400s so i think that’s fine, will keep an eye for now.
saw an explanation here
When connecting to a remote system via SSH, you might encounter the error Client_loop: send disconnect: Broken pipe.
In this tutorial, we will see why this happens and address the error.
Client_loop: send disconnect: Broken pipe Error
The error is simply a disconnection message that notifies you that your SSH connection timeout has been exceeded.
This is a period of inactivity during which no Linux command is executed or issued from the client side. When this happens, the SSH session is terminated, effectively disconnecting you from the remote server.
Most users will usually press ‘ENTER’ or a key on the keyboard to avoid having an idle SSH session which will cause the disconnection to the host. However, this can tedious and time-wasting.
To resolve this issue, you need to increase the SSH connection timeout on the client. To do so, modify the default SSH configuration file which is usually at /etc/ssh/sshd_config.
$ sudo vi /etc/ssh/sshd_config
Be sure to locate these two parameters: ClientAliveInterval and ClientAliveCountMax. Let’s check out what they do.
ClientAliveInterval – This is the period of inactivity after which the SSH server sends an alive message to the remote client that is connected to it.
ClientAliveCountMax – This is the number of attempts that the server will make to send the alive message from the server to the client.
already answered the m.2 satas how that was installed, via the QWA wireless addon card (maybe this is what is causing issue with booting it)
This TS-877 is limited to 2.5’’ sata which it has 2 slots. This is most likely to work (since it’s a direct connection to the board without any sort of intermediaries), and i may pursue this in the future. Is there perhaps a way to clone truenas off the usb m.2 nvme onto a pair of 2.5’''sata ssds ? or do i have to do everything again from scratch…
not sure what you mean sata dom. The dom i didn’t see where it’s located because i didn’t plan to remove it physically to begin with. Unlike the TS-253D it would be a bit much to dismantle that
not sure why one direction is significantly slow. but it’s still roughly 2.5gbe speeds
in the other direction, sometimes it’s a blistering 700 MB/s (like you said i think there is a bottleneck from the pcie slot so it can’t reach that 10g speeds, but this seems good enough for me to not worry too much about it) but it will also at times dip down to a steady 300 - 400 MB/s.
NAS is setup with 4x 4tb HDD seagate ironwolf 128mb cache?
And the desktop has a Crucial P5 Plus 2TB PCIe M.2 2280SS Gaming SSD
Even before when i was using QTS and the 2.5gbe NIC installed on the QNAP, it also showed this speed slowdown in one direction (from PC to NAS was drastically slower than the other direction).
But the difference now is, speeds are at least 2.5gbe stable rather than an erratic 2.5gbe than may also dip and hover at 1gbe at times. So there is that improvement.
ok moving graphics to other slot 100% won’t work. it’s too big for that
so moving forward either the graphics card gets kicked out (and only reinstall when needed to access bios rarely), or i use it in the previous setup.
that said i moved the sfp+ pcie to the proper slot to avoid any possible bottleneck in performance. And also to test if it gets me to that 10g or not. Or will it just get stuck at 700 MB/s max like what i observed in the previous configuration.
I will also be doing my last share restore over rsync in this new config and see if performance has any change or not. I doubt it because the 253D is capped at 2.5gbe speeds anyway, so doubt changing the pcie on ts-877 would do anything for that (also i did hit 700 MB/s in my test so it’s not like it was lacking in the first place).
at most i saw truenas to desktop peak around 800 MB/s ish then it came down most of the time
that’s my result. But basically if the pcie card was in the other slot i would probably not notice any big difference (at least to me )
Now running HBS rsync one way to restore from backup.
96 MB/s about the same as the previous config. Like i suspected it wouldn’t have made a difference since the bottleneck in this case was at the 253D with it’s 2.5gbe nics.
In summary, i am better of putting back the pcie in the other slot, so… i can then keep the graphics card in the slot without having to remove it at all, seeing as there is no noticeable downside keeping it in that configuration
than most people, 1 is more than enough. 3-2-1 is the golden standard if you are able to do that, do it)
