On Tue, 14 Aug 2018 16:06:21 -0400, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > On August 14, 2018 11:42:18 AM UTC, John Covici <cov...@ccs.covici.com> wrote: > > >I use sanoid/syncoid to back up using zfs. Its great, keeps snapshots > >for as long as I want them (I use 80 days for now). And it keeps > >hourlies for the last couple of days as well, so I could roll back in > >case of a problem. Very nice if you use zfs. > > I tried sanoid, but it has a few problems which really become annoying when > you have a lot of datasets: > 1) every dataset is handled seperately, no use of recursive snapshots when > datasets are inside the same tree > 2) it keeps seperate hourly, daily,.... snapshots, which means it will > happily create multiple snapshots with only a few seconds difference for > every dataset around midnight. > 3) when rolling back several snapshots, there are multiple errors reported > because the cache (where does it store that?) does not match reality. > > Have these been resolved yet? > > I ended up writing my own system for this, got some extra intelligence in > there to work around any possible error condition I have encountered. >
Well, I got around your second point by having a special job at 11:59 pm to create the dailies and the one at midnight works well. I only do the cron jobs hourly, not every minute like they wanted. If your script is not special for you, I would like to see it, maybe I would use it instead. Things seem to work for now, however with those modifications. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici wb2una cov...@ccs.covici.com