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Date:      Thu, 18 Apr 2013 20:17:34 +0300
From:      Volodymyr Kostyrko <c.kworr@gmail.com>
To:        Brian Gold <bgold@simons-rock.edu>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: scripting zfs send & receive, but the script never exits cleanly
Message-ID:  <51702AAE.50309@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <0d5e01ce3c52$bf74c9d0$3e5e5d70$@simons-rock.edu>
References:  <0d5e01ce3c52$bf74c9d0$3e5e5d70$@simons-rock.edu>

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18.04.2013 19:35, Brian Gold:
> Hi all. Quick question for you. I've got a pair of freebsd 9 systems running
> zfs. i've got my primary system doing ZFS SEND each night to my secondary
> system for backups. I'm using a script I wrote to automate the process. I'm
> passing the zfs send & receive through gnetcat as a buffer which increases
> the speed of the transfer quite a bit. The script is available here:
> http://pastebin.com/2suzs3wP
>
>
>
> My problem is, when I run this script it syncs just fine, but it never
> actually ends. It just sits there until I kill it. I would love to have this
> run as a scheduled cron job, but until I can get this to exit cleanly when
> it is done, that won't be an option.
>
>
>
> Here is the output I get when I run this: http://pastebin.com/q8hRzuVv
>
>
>
> Would really appreciate any advice you may have. If anyone has a
> cleaner/more efficient way of doing these incremental send/receives, that
> would be great too.

I've done the same with this script: 
https://github.com/kworr/zfSnap/blob/master/xPERIODICx_zfSync.sh

Maybe you would find some ideas useful.

-- 
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow.



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