Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2016 12:36:52 +0000 From: Malcolm Matalka <mmatalka@gmail.com> To: Aleksandr Miroslav <alexmiroslav@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: zfs (zxfer) replication -- "holes" in backups? Message-ID: <867f6u22vv.fsf@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CACcSE1xG%2B6wLoGwjNDAcadcdCxFD6sAC2G%2BXkNn911myfosgKw@mail.gmail.com> (Aleksandr Miroslav's message of "Mon, 19 Dec 2016 20:13:22 -0800") References: <CACcSE1znx_3H=71hT_3TOu-tMhWjkm7_sx-nxLQA83iz4aeR6w@mail.gmail.com> <CACcSE1xG%2B6wLoGwjNDAcadcdCxFD6sAC2G%2BXkNn911myfosgKw@mail.gmail.com>
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Aleksandr Miroslav <alexmiroslav@gmail.com> writes: > On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 5:08 PM, Aleksandr Miroslav <alexmiroslav@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> I'm using a pkg called zfstools to take my snapshots. It takes snapshots >> called frequent, hourly, daily, weekly, and monthly. >> > > The problem may have been even more sillier. The snapshots taken by the > package zfstools depends on this property: > > $ zfs get all zroot/usr/home|grep auto-snapshot > zroot/usr/home com.sun:auto-snapshot true local > > It turns out that when I sent my snapshots to my backup machine, I never > turned off this property, the backup machine also had zfstools installed, > and so was taking snapshots of my backupsnaphots. Hence the holes. I've > since cleaned this up, and will let backups run for a few days and see if > this fixes the problem. I ran into this problem where the snapshots the machine that was backing up to named the snapshots the same thing so zxfer thought the transfer didn't need to happen. I "solved" this by putting the hostname in the snapshot name. There is probably a better way though. > > Alex > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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