Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2015 10:50:29 +0100 From: Steven Hartland <killing@multiplay.co.uk> To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ZFS: exclude one FS from recurive snapshot creation? Or some equivalent to "nodump" for dataset? Message-ID: <5534CBE5.1020902@multiplay.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <710623939.20150420122931@serebryakov.spb.ru> References: <710623939.20150420122931@serebryakov.spb.ru>
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Thinking outside the box a little, create the recursive snapshot then remove the snapshot for that user? On 20/04/2015 10:29, Lev Serebryakov wrote: > Hello Freebsd-fs, > > I have set of ZFS filesystems, one fielsystem per user like this: > > zroot/home/group1/user11 > zroot/home/group1/user12 > zroot/home/group1/user13 > zroot/home/group2/user21 > zroot/home/group2/user22 > zroot/home/group3/user31 > ... > > I want to create complete snapshots of "zroot/home" tree regularly (with > zfSnap), but I have one "user" which holds a huge amount of > easy-reconstructible data, which I don't wont to store in snapshots. > > Is it possible to exclude one dataset (filesystem) from "zfs snap -r"? > > I don't want to enumerate all but this filesystem in configuration file, as > it is error-prone and requires editing configs each time user is created or > removed. > > P.S. I start to understand how much I love "nodump" flag on UFS and it usage > with "dump" command! Absence of such functionality for "zfs send" is really > pity. >
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