Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2007 01:34:27 -0500 From: Richard Todd <rmtodd@ichotolot.servalan.com> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Automatic ZFS snapshots? Message-ID: <x7lkaqugi4.fsf@ichotolot.servalan.com> In-Reply-To: <servalan.mailinglist.fbsd-current/92E55685-5D87-48F5-BB93-C9AE66DBA8BF@online.no> (Sverre Svenningsen's message of "Sat, 29 Sep 2007 00:23:05 %2B0200") References: <92E55685-5D87-48F5-BB93-C9AE66DBA8BF@online.no>
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Sverre Svenningsen <ss.alert@online.no> writes: > Sun has created a utility that lets you manage automated snaphots, as > detailed here: http://blogs.sun.com/timf/entry/ > zfs_automatic_snapshots_now_with > > Has anyone looked into a method to accomplish something similar on > the FreeBSD port? > A lot of the value in snaphots lie in the .zfs directories where > users can fish out backups of their damaged or deleted files without > help from an admin - but for this to work there has to be a system in > place that makes new snaphots on a schedule, and also purges the > snaphots that have become too old. Well, if you just want regular creation of snapshots and removal of old snapshots on a specified schedule, /usr/ports/sysutils/freebsd-snapshot might be a good place to start hacking, as it has a set of scripts that do this for UFS snapshots.
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