From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 29 07:41:46 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F08F516A417 for ; Sat, 29 Sep 2007 07:41:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rmtodd@ichotolot.servalan.com) Received: from mx2.synetsystems.com (mx2.synetsystems.com [76.10.206.15]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3D8413C461 for ; Sat, 29 Sep 2007 07:41:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rmtodd@ichotolot.servalan.com) Received: by mx2.synetsystems.com (Postfix, from userid 66) id 1B85C544; Sat, 29 Sep 2007 03:15:18 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rmtodd by servalan.servalan.com with local (Exim 4.66 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1IbVuG-000D9t-23 for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Sat, 29 Sep 2007 01:34:28 -0500 To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org References: <92E55685-5D87-48F5-BB93-C9AE66DBA8BF@online.no> From: Richard Todd Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2007 01:34:27 -0500 In-Reply-To: (Sverre Svenningsen's message of "Sat, 29 Sep 2007 00:23:05 +0200") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) XEmacs/21.4.20 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: Re: Automatic ZFS snapshots? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2007 07:41:47 -0000 Sverre Svenningsen 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.