New to the list, so forgive me if this is an FAQ (I googled and turned up
nothing.) I just installed omnios as a ZFS virtual appliance serving up
virtual disks to ESXi via NFS. Working great. Is there a way to install
the standard zfs auto-snapshot service? Thanks!
I happened to notice after the appliance had been running for awhile that
3 services are shown as being in maintenance state.
root@omnios-appliance2:~# svcs -xv
svc:/network/rpc/gss:default (Generic Security Service)
State: maintenance since April 23, 2013 11:33:17 AM EDT
Reason: Maintenance
On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 11:23 AM, Dan Swartzendruber dswa...@druber.com wrote:
I'm using Zetaback. Has support for incremental backups, offsite
storage, per-host retention policies and it's simple as heck:
http://labs.omniti.com/labs/zetaback
Works like a charm for me.
thanks, I'll take a
On 04/23/2013 05:45 PM, Dan Swartzendruber wrote:
It was illumos bug #3326. It was closed since I had deleted the dump (no
activity for 4 months...) I will repro this and see about getting it
reopened...
Just read through the mail trail on this and it's definitely something
Illumos people
On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 4:33 PM, Dan Swartzendruber dswa...@druber.com
wrote:
Trivial repro. On ESXi 5.1 with latest patches. Download OVA for
omnios
bloody first boot.
Did you run a 'pkg update' after setting up the system based on this
image? That OVA was community-contributed and is
If you have VMware Tools running on the VM(s), you can use the command line
api or the vSphere web service api to request that the VM is quiesced and
snapshotted, then take a snapshot of the ZFS storage. That should get you a
snapshot that is more than just crash-consistent.
On Tue, Apr 23, 2013
