Well, two steps forwards, one step back. The scrub I ran yesterday at least showed some errors, but I’m having trouble identifying exactly what is the actual problem. I think I’ll sleep on it and form a new plan in the morning.

Controller failure? RAM failure? Dmesg shows absolutely nothing, no panics no anything so I’m not thinking it’s ram. Hmmmm… maybe I’ll run mtest after I get some sleep.

3-2-1-backup@BackupServer:~$ sudo zpool status -vx
pool: data_pool3
state: ONLINE
status: One or more devices has experienced an error resulting in data
    corruption.  Applications may be affected.
action: Restore the file in question if possible.  Otherwise restore the
    entire pool from backup.
 see: https://openzfs.github.io/openzfs-docs/msg/ZFS-8000-8A
 scan: scrub repaired 40K in 07:07:07 with 4 errors on Tue Nov 28 22:39:33 2023
config:

    NAME                        STATE     READ WRITE CKSUM
    data_pool3                  ONLINE       0     0     0
      raidz2-0                  ONLINE       0     0     0
        wwn-0x5000ccax1  ONLINE       0     0     8
        wwn-0x5000ccax2 ONLINE       0     0    10
        wwn-0x5000ccax3 ONLINE       0     0     8
        wwn-0x5000ccax4 ONLINE       0     0     8
        wwn-0x5000ccax5 ONLINE       0     0     8
        wwn-0x5000ccax6 ONLINE       0     0     8
        wwn-0x5000ccax7 ONLINE       0     0     8
        wwn-0x5000ccax8 ONLINE       0     0     8

errors: Permanent errors have been detected in the following files:

    data_pool3/(redacted)/downloads@backup_script-2023-11-28-0901:/(redacted).mkv
    data_pool3/(redacted)@backup_script-2023-11-28-2001:/ISOs/Ubuntu/23.10/ubuntu-23.10.1-desktop-amd64.iso
    data_pool3/(redacted)@backup_script-2023-11-07-0901:/(redacted).mkv

Hey wow, even though my problem is getting worse (maybe), an actual honest-to-god ISO showed up in the problem file list!

This is my backup server, so no. Primary does.

zfs --version also does the trick.

Makes me really glad I almost never bother to upgrade my pool flags!

(I mean seriously, I can’t think of the last time I had a use for new flags!)

Kind of want someone to re-run the numbers on this with updated storage densities.

I’m going to disagree with you there, it’s completely situationally dependent. I tried running a wifi point-to-point link from my house to my detached garage, ran like hot garbage. Replaced the link with powerline, was much more stable and faster.

Right tool for the right job. Well really the right tool is to bury something (preferably fiber) between the buildings, but I’m not made out of money and the power line was already buried!

#*POOF*

OK who rubbed the lamp? Of course I follow the rule religiously!