Re: Automatic ZFS snapshots?

Sverre Svenningsen <ss.alert@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

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.

Well, if you just want regular creation of snapshots and removal of old
snapshots on a specified schedule, /usr/ports/sysutils/freebsd-snapshot
might be a good place to start hacking, as it has a set of scripts that
do this for UFS snapshots.


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