On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 5:54 PM, Wee Yeh Tan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm just thinking out loud. What would be the advantage of having > periodic snapshot taken within ZFS vs invoking it from an external > facility?
It's been a while since I've dealt with a NetApp, but as I remember they have a pretty straight forward way to schedule snapshots and their retention. It would be nice to have a single place to define "keep the 6 most recent hourly snaps, then a nightly for the next 7 days" Whether the snapshots are created/removed from within the ZFS stack, or from a cron job that reads the config doesn't matter, but having the configuration tied to the filesystem would be nice. You would inherit a snapshot schedule and retention policy, just like other filesystem properties. -B -- Brandon High [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The good is the enemy of the best." - Nietzsche _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
