Date: Sun, 8 May 2016 14:02:27 +0300 From: Lev Serebryakov <lev@FreeBSD.org> To: fs@freebsd.org Subject: ZFS hierathy, snapshots and backup tool -- how to traverse snapshotted tree properly? Message-ID: <886527019.20160508140221@serebryakov.spb.ru>
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Hello Fs,
I'm writing some backup tool (yet another, don't ask!) and encounter some
"inconvenience" in ZFS snapshot system, for which I don't see good solution
(all I could imagine is kludgy and ugly). Maybe, there is some approach I
didn't notice or some ZFS-specific API I should now?
Lets say, here is some hierarchy of ZFS file systems. For example, I will
use "/home" which have one filesystem per user:
zpool/home/user1 -> /home/user1
zpool/home/user2 -> /home/user2
zpool/home/user3 -> /home/user3
But it could be much more complex hierarchy.
Now, we have backup tool, which works with filesystem tree. If I want to
backup all my users, I could setup it to backup "/home" and everything
works even if users will be added (or removed) in future.
But STOP! We want to backup snapshot, if our filesystem supports
snapshots! It is good idea! ZFS supports snapshot!
It is easy to teach backup tool to call
zfs snapshot -r ${backup_root}@${randomname}
at beginning and
zfs destroy -r ${backup_root}@${randomname}
at the end of the process. No problems here.
Problems are, how backup tool should TRAVERSE snapshotted directory tree
now?
Simple "go to ${backup_root}/.zfs/${randomname}" DOESN'T WORK! Because
/home/.zfs/${randomname} does not contain user directories. They are
separate FSes and have separate paths for their snapshots. Traversing
"live" tree but getting data from snapshots is not proper way to do this,
for sure, as it is depreciate whole idea of snapshots.
Is here good solution for this problem?
Of course, it is possible to configure each FS for backup tool one-by-one,
but I don't like this solution, as in ZFS world there could be very deep
and nested FS hierarchies. Also, configuring each FS separately in backup
tool configuration leads to forgotten FSes in long-term maintenance for
sure.
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Best regards,
Lev mailto:lev@FreeBSD.org
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