Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 13:51:29 -0700 From: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Wesley Shields <wxs@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Sven Willenberger <sven@dmv.com> Subject: Re: Multi-machine mirroring choices Message-ID: <20080715205129.GA56105@eos.sc1.parodius.com> In-Reply-To: <487CD9ED.1090207@FreeBSD.org> References: <1216130834.27608.27.camel@lanshark.dmv.com> <20080715145426.GA31340@eos.sc1.parodius.com> <20080715162912.GI64436@atarininja.org> <487CD9ED.1090207@FreeBSD.org>
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On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 07:10:05PM +0200, Kris Kennaway wrote: > 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 There is also sysutils/freebsd-snapshot (pkg-descr is out of date, it 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. Thanks for pointing this out -- I had no idea such a port existed! -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |
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