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Cc: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org,
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Subject: Re: Multi-machine mirroring choices
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Wesley Shields wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 07:54:26AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
>> One of the "annoyances" to ZFS snapshots, however, was that I had to
>> write my own script to do snapshot rotations (think incremental dump(8)
>> but using ZFS snapshots).
> 
> There is a PR[1] to get something like this in the ports tree.  I have
> no idea how good it is but I hope to get it in the tree soon.
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/125340

There is also sysutils/freebsd-snapshot (pkg-descr is out of date, it 
supports ZFS too).

I found it more convenient to just write my own tiny script.

Kris