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Date:      Sat, 29 Sep 2007 00:23:05 +0200
From:      Sverre Svenningsen <ss.alert@online.no>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Automatic ZFS snapshots?
Message-ID:  <92E55685-5D87-48F5-BB93-C9AE66DBA8BF@online.no>

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Sun has created a utility that lets you manage automated snaphots, as  
detailed here: http://blogs.sun.com/timf/entry/ 
zfs_automatic_snapshots_now_with

Has anyone looked into a method to accomplish something similar on  
the FreeBSD port?
A lot of the value in snaphots lie in the .zfs directories where  
users can fish out backups of their damaged or deleted files without  
help from an admin - but for this to work there has to be a system in  
place that makes new snaphots on a schedule, and also purges the  
snaphots that have become too old.

This is probably going to require some fancy scripting, so i'm  
curious if anyone has made a set of scripts to do it on freebsd yet?  
It's probably not possible to port over this thing sun made since  
it's a plugin for their solaris service control system...


-Sverre



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