Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 10:30:41 +0100 From: Gerrit =?ISO-8859-1?Q?K=FChn?= <gerrit.kuehn@aei.mpg.de> To: krichy@tvnetwork.hu Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ZFS snapshot renames failing after upgrade to 9.2 Message-ID: <20131220103041.0ab3d02a.gerrit.kuehn@aei.mpg.de> In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.10.1312201010350.12244@krichy.tvnetwork.hu> References: <0C9FD4E1-0549-4849-BFC5-D8C5D4A34D64@msqr.us> <54D3B3C002184A52BEC9B1543854B87F@multiplay.co.uk> <333D57C6A4544067880D9CFC04F02312@multiplay.co.uk> <26053_1387447492_52B2C4C4_26053_331_1_20131219105503.3a8d1df3.gerrit.kuehn@aei.mpg.de> <20131219165549.9f2ca709.gerrit.kuehn@aei.mpg.de> <alpine.DEB.2.10.1312191718330.12885@krichy.tvnetwork.hu> <20131219174054.91ac617a.gerrit.kuehn@aei.mpg.de> <alpine.DEB.2.10.1312192007100.30378@krichy.tvnetwork.hu> <20131220100522.382a39ac.gerrit.kuehn@aei.mpg.de> <alpine.DEB.2.10.1312201010350.12244@krichy.tvnetwork.hu>
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On Fri, 20 Dec 2013 10:19:15 +0100 (CET) krichy@tvnetwork.hu wrote about Re: ZFS snapshot renames failing after upgrade to 9.2: Dear Richard, KH> It is not a solution, but I use different snapshot handling KH> mechanisms. I wrote a simple script which handles that, and the KH> snapshots are named by its creation timestamp. I think it is more KH> usable to see that when that snapshot was exactly taken, and the KH> script thus only does snapshot creation, and deletion, no renames. I see. I am using sysutils/freebsd-snapshot which does renaming for rotation. Well, if there is not fix for this in sight, I will probably have to look into a different snapshotting strategy and adopt backup scripts and stuff accordingly. KH> That scripts only limitation is that it is planned to run hourly, KH> creating hourly snapshots, and when run again, it queries the existing KH> one's list, and decides which to keep or remove. Thus you have to run KH> it hourly in cron like: KH> # crontab -l KH> 0 * * * * /usr/local/sbin/zfs-snapshot I think freebsd-snapshot does the same, so this would not change anything for me. Thanks for the hint. cu Gerrit
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