I hit the wrong button when moderating the post to zfs-auto-snapshot@
mailing list. I'm forwarding the original mail from Brandon below.
Summarising Brandon's questions:
* how to best create SMF instances on an existing service
* why are there permission errors when running a new instance
Hi all,
Just forwarding Niall's heads-up message about the impending removal of
the existing zfs-auto-snapshot implementation in nv_128
I've not been involved in the rewrite, but what I've read about the new
code, it'll be a lot more efficient than the old ksh-based code, and
will fix many of
On Fri, 2009-09-25 at 01:32 -0700, Erik Trimble wrote:
Go back and look through the archives for this list. We just had this
discussion last month. Let's not rehash it again, as it seems to get
redone way too often.
You know, this seems like such a common question to the list, would we
(the
On Mon, 2009-07-06 at 10:00 +0200, Juergen Nickelsen wrote:
DL Consulting no-re...@opensolaris.org writes:
Do not use the snapshots made for the time slider feature. These are
under control of the auto-snapshot service for exactly the time
slider and not for anything else.
- or you could
Hi all,
Just a quick plug: the latest version of ZFS Automatic Snapshots SMF
service hit the hg repository yesterday.
If you're using 0.11 or older, it's well worth upgrading to get the few
bugfixes (especially if you're using CIFs - we use '_' instead of ':' in
snapshot names now)
More at:
Hi Ross,
On Thu, 2009-06-25 at 04:24 -0700, Ross wrote:
Thanks Tim, do you know which build this is going to appear in?
I've actually no idea - SUNWzfs-auto-snapshot gets delivered by the
Desktop consolidation, not me. I'm checking in with them to see what the
story is.
That said, it probably
On Tue, 2009-06-09 at 06:52 -0700, Maurilio Longo wrote:
I really was trying to have a full copy of my pool onto a different
pc, so I think that I have to use -R otherwise I would loose all the
history (monthly and weekly and daily snapshots) of my data which is
valuable for me.
Fair enough,
Hi Victor,
On Tue, 2009-06-09 at 08:35 -0700, Victor Kramer wrote:
Any news regarding this problem?
I could not find any workaround or fix for this problem.
Any ideas when this one might be fixed?
8683: time slider cleanup doesn't clean up ZFS volume snapshots.
On Mon, 2009-06-08 at 05:38 -0700, Maurilio Longo wrote:
Now, from the error it seems that T1 needs all the snapshots which
were active at the time it was created, which is not what I would
expect from a snapshot.
From the man page, -R tries to replicate everything, including any
existing
Hi Harry,
On Wed, 2009-04-15 at 16:59 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote:
How can I make zfs give some shorter kind of names to the auto snapshots
it takes.
I'd like to alter the date string and shorten like this:
zfs-auto-snap:frequent-2009-04-15-16:30
Would become:
a:freq-041509_1630
This is a known bug:
http://bugs.opensolaris.org/view_bug.do?bug_id=6749498
- being a duplicate of an existing bug:
http://bugs.opensolaris.org/view_bug.do?bug_id=6462803
cheers,
tim
On Mon, 2009-01-12 at 14:07 -0800, Robert Bauer wrote:
Time slider is not
Hi there,
William Bauer wrote:
Interesting that the weekly snapshots run on Monday. Shows the
difference in thinking of when a week begins or ends. In the future,
it would be nice to have more control over the slider's settings,
The core auto-snapshot service will have this support in
hi Rich,
On Wed, 2009-01-07 at 10:51 -0500, Richard Morris - Sun Microsystems -
Burlington United States wrote:
As you point out, the -c option is user friendly while the -depth (or
maybe -d) option is more general. There have been several requests for
the -c option. Would anyone prefer
Hi there,
Charles wrote:
I'm a new user of OpenSolaris 2008.11, I switched from Linux to try
the time-slider, but now when I execute the time-slider I get this
message:
http://img115.imageshack.us/my.php?image=capturefentresansnomfx9.png
I wish we'd release-noted this particular problem.
Paweł Tęcza wrote:
Dnia 2008-11-25, wto o godzinie 23:16 +0100, Paweł Tęcza pisze:
Also I'm very curious whether I can configure Time Slider to taking
backup every 2 or 4 or 8 hours, for example.
Or set the max number of snapshots?
Yes you can (though not in the time-slider gui yet).
On Fri, 2008-10-31 at 13:02 +0100, Luca Morettoni wrote:
Warning - Invalid account: 'zfssnap' not allowed to execute cronjobs
Does there exist an entry for zfssnap in /etc/passwd? This was added to
nv_100 and works fine for SXCE:
6750041 Need zfssnap role account for LSARC/2008/571
I wonder
Chris Gerhard wrote:
I'm not sure there's an easy way to please everyone to be honest :-/
I'm not sure you are right there. If there was an SMF property that you
set to set the default behaviour and then you set it to true on
something that looked like a laptop and false otherwise. Or you
Niall Power wrote:
Bueller? Anyone?
Yeah, I'd love to know the answer too. The furthest I got into
investigating this last time was:
http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/zfs-discuss/2007-December/044787.html
- does that help at all Niall?
The context to Niall's question is to extend Time
Hi Chris,
Chris Gerhard wrote:
How can you disable the auto-snapshot service[s] by default without
disabling the timeslider
as well which appears to be the case if you disable the smf services.
Not sure I follow - time slider depends on the auto-snapshot service to
take snapshots... (does
Chris Gerhard wrote:
Not quite. I want to make the default for all pools imported or not to
not do this and then turn it on where it makes sense and won't do harm.
Aah I see. That's the complete opposite of what the desktop folk wanted
then - you want to opt-in, instead of opt-out.
For
On Thu, 2008-10-09 at 22:40 -0700, Alex Peng wrote:
Is it fun to have autocomplete in zpool or zfs command?
For instance -
zfs cr 'Tab key' will become zfs create
zfs clone 'Tab key' will show me the available snapshots
zfs set 'Tab key' will show me the available
On Thu, 2008-09-25 at 12:07 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 11:43:51AM +0200, Nils Goroll wrote:
Storage Checkpoints in Veritas software has this feature (removing
the oldest checkpoint in case of 100% filesystem usage) by default.
Why not add such option to ZFS ?
-
On Thu, 2008-09-25 at 12:52 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
nobody is going to assume user's intentions. Just give us
snapshot-related property which we can set to on/off and everybody
can setup zfs according to his/her needs.
Then that'll be there in nv_100. Enjoy!
cheers,
On Thu, 2008-09-25 at 10:19 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That snap schedule seems reasonable to me. Relate to the cleanup part
of the doc linked, do you know the rational for killing off the most recent
(15 minute and hourly) snaps vs the oldest (monthly) first?
It's a tough call
On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 03:53 -0700, Ross wrote:
We're looking at autohome folders for windows users over CIFS, but I'm
wondering how that is going to affect our backup strategy. I was
hoping to be able to use your automatic snapshot service on these
servers, do you know how that service would
Hi all,
I've just pushed some of the changes coming up in 0.11
hg clone ssh://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/hg/jds/zfs-snapshot
I've got some commentary on the Early Access nature of this release at:
http://blogs.sun.com/timf/entry/zfs_automatic_snapshots_0_11
Comments (and bug reports) welcome!
Hey Nils,
On Sun, 2008-08-03 at 05:57 -0700, Nils Goroll wrote:
This does sound like a valid alternative solution for this requirement if you
want to avoid using at, though this will involve additional complexity for
parsing timestamps of existing snapshots and calculating intervals, which
I
On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 15:58 -0700, Rob wrote:
The other changes that will appear in 0.11 (which is
nearly done) are:
Still looking forward to seeing .11 :)
Wow, there's one user out there at least! Thanks!
Think we can expect a release soon? (or at least svn access so
that others can
Hey Nils,
Nils Goroll wrote:
but in cases where you're powering down a laptop overnight,
you don't want to just take a load of snapshots after you power on for
every missed cron job, you just want one
This is precisely what the at solution is doing: As there is only one
at job for each zfs
Hey Nils everyone
Finally getting around to answering Nil's mail properly - only a month
late! I thought I'd also let everyone else know what's been going on
with the service, since 0.10 released in January this year.
On Tue, 2008-06-24 at 14:40 -0700, Nils Goroll wrote:
first of all: Tim,
Hey Nils,
On Thu, 2008-06-26 at 09:37 -0700, Nils Goroll wrote:
I'll attach a new version zfs-auto-snapshot including some more
improvements, and probably some new bugs.
Just to let you know that I *have* seen your mails on this and really
appreciate getting the feedback, but I just haven't
On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 15:44 +0800, Aubrey Li wrote:
for windows we use ghost to backup system and recovery.
can we do similar thing for solaris by ZFS?
How about flar ?
http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-5668/flash-24?a=view
[ I'm actually not sure if it's supported for zfs root though ]
Hey Joerg,
On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 13:47 +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote:
How about flar ?
http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-5668/flash-24?a=view
[ I'm actually not sure if it's supported for zfs root though ]
Isn't flar based on the outdated cpio?
cpio was updated to support ZFS ACLs as
, here's one way: zpool export other pools on the system, then
delete /etc/zfs/zpool.cache, reboot the machine then do a zpool import
for each of the other pools you want to keep.
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integrates more neatly with the rest of ZFS) ?
Otherwise, should I start filling in an ARC one-pager template or is
this sort of utility something that's better left to sysadmins to
implement themselves, rather than baking it into the OS ?
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Hi all,
I just posted some stuff about a simple ZFS automatic backup service to
my blog:
http://blogs.sun.com/timf/entry/zfs_automatic_backup_0_1
- all thoughts/comments (and bug reports!) welcome
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and I've another one that will also do this for you:
http://blogs.sun.com/timf/entry/zfs_automatic_snapshots_0_8
I'm sure there's other scripts floating around, which may be more suited
to your requirements but these are a start at least.
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hi Jürgen,
On Fri, 2007-07-20 at 05:04 -0700, Jürgen Keil wrote:
How about a new feature for zpool create and zfs create to
allow creation of a zpool or zfs that is not using the newest
version but some older version
Yep, that's there already - PSARC 2007/328 gives zfs upgrade and you
can
those,
zpool import should show the pools that are available for import -
does this help ?
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/dev/dsk/c2t1d0s1 contains a ufs filesystem.
# zpool create -f pool c2t1d0s1
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the vdev_label (if I'm not mistaken - section 1.3.3 in the on-disk
format document covers this.)
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menu entry
in /pool/boot/grub/menu.lst ( eg. change the title line in the ZFS
boot entry, adding some random text) that you see those changes
reflected in the menu that grub actually displays ?
Let me know if any of these suggestions help ?
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Hi Doug,
On Tue, 2007-06-05 at 06:45 -0700, Douglas Atique wrote:
Hi, Tim. Thanks for your hints.
No problem
Comments on each one follow (marked with Doug: and in blue).
html mail :-/
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On Tue, 2007-04-03 at 10:54 -0400, Luke Scharf wrote:
Tim Foster wrote:
You can add a disk to a raidz configuration, but then that makes a pool
containing 1 raidz + 1 additional disk in a dynamic stripe configuration
(which ZFS will warn you about, since you have different fault tolerance
ONLINE 0 0 0
/tmp/2 ONLINE 0 0 0
/tmp/3 ONLINE 0 0 0
/tmp/4ONLINE 0 0 0
errors: No known data errors
#
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Hi All,
On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 19:33 +0100, Tim Foster wrote:
(replying to myself, I know, I know)
Yep - I'll be working this weekend on updating the previous
mountrootadm.sh script that I wrote when the previous ZFS Mountroot
(ufs boot + a quick switcheroo to zfs root) solution was being used
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Hi all,
On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 14:23 -0700, Lin Ling wrote:
We will make the manual and netinstall instructions available to
non-SWAN folks shortly.
Tim Foster also has a script to do the set up, wait for his blog.
Just put that blog post up - you can find it at
http://blogs.sun.com/timf
to use free space on the root pool, making it
available for other uses (by setting a reservation on the root
filesystem, you can ensure that / always has sufficient available
space)
- am I missing any others ?
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referenced by a
previous snapshot, in which case the data isn't unreferenced.
hope this helps,
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this could be implemented (except via brutal pstop/prun hacks on the
zfs send process whenever your pool exceeds some given IO threshold)
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send/recv coming
soon, including ways to send all incremental snapshots, send nested
filesystem, and ways to preserve filesystem properties while sending.
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0 0 0
c3t4d0 ONLINE 0 0 0
c3t5d0 ONLINE 0 0 0
c3t6d0 UNAVAIL 0 679 0 cannot open
errors: No known data errors
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, replace
with working hardware, and do zpool online pool name working disk
This is pretty well covered in the ZFS Administration Guide at:
http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-5461/6n7ht6qrt?a=view
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pools during
testing.
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I wasn't able to reproduce this on similar bits, nor on recent s10 bits
(ultimately destined for s10_u3) or nevada bits. Do you have a
consistently reproducible test case ?
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at the prospect DTrace on
their platform.
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get your people to port iTunes to
OpenSolaris for us[1] ?)
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run into any problems, but see the disclaimer above.
Does Networker traditionally scan /etc/vfstab in any way ? If it doesn't
then I'm guessing you shouldn't have any problems.
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Och, sorry - a clarification might needed to my reply:
Tim Foster wrote:
Darren Dunham wrote:
I meant, rather than taring it up, can you just pass the snapshot mount
point to Networker as a saveset?
Yup, in my brief testing, I was able to backup a snapdir using
Networker
a more reliable disk
replication setup...)
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Explorer, but if you use del from a command prompt, it
actually deletes the file. I see no reason why we shouldn't support the
same functionality (i.e. RecycleBin from within Nautilus (as it already
does), and true deletion via rm).
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on who's doing the deletion)
Aah right, okay - those are reasons against my previous post about
having an application register it's interest in getting undelete
capability. Good points Eric!
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hadn't noticed, Alo also did some desktop integration
work, concerning ACLs recently, at
http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/alvaro#gnome_zfs_and_the_acl ]
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