Re: Snapshots ordering on slave and pfs according to freequency for snapshot management

2010-04-28 Thread Siju George
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 1:15 PM, Francois Tigeot ftig...@wolfpond.org wrote: I think sysutils/rsnapshot does what you want. It uses hard links to simulate snapshots on classic filesystems and manages different ranges of snapshots. You can specify how much snapshots you want to keep for each

Re: Snapshots ordering on slave and pfs according to freequency for snapshot management

2010-04-28 Thread Siju George
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 7:26 AM, Matthew Dillon dil...@apollo.backplane.com wrote:    hammer cleanup only removes snapshots over X days old.  It can't    distinguish between fine-grained and coarse-grained snapshots    that you explicitly tell hammer to make.  You would have to remove    

Re: Snapshots ordering on slave and pfs according to freequency for snapshot management

2010-04-28 Thread Francois Tigeot
Hi George, On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 03:40:08PM +0530, Siju George wrote: On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 1:15 PM, Francois Tigeot ftig...@wolfpond.org wrote: I think sysutils/rsnapshot does what you want. It uses hard links to simulate snapshots on classic filesystems and manages different ranges

Re: Snapshots ordering on slave and pfs according to freequency for snapshot management

2010-04-28 Thread Siju George
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 4:10 PM, Francois Tigeot ftig...@wolfpond.org wrote: Yeah, I'm in full agreement with you. I think I was a bit misanderstood: Hammer performance is *much better* than rsnapshot (obviously) but there is no way to easily tell it to keep its snapshot distribution in

Re: Snapshots ordering on slave and pfs according to freequency for snapshot management

2010-04-28 Thread Matthew Dillon
: Yeah, I'm in full agreement with you. : : I think I was a bit misanderstood: Hammer performance is *much better* than : rsnapshot (obviously) but there is no way to easily tell it to keep its : snapshot distribution in different intervals for archiving purposes. : This is the one thing rsnapshot

Re: Snapshots ordering on slave and pfs according to freequency for snapshot management

2010-04-27 Thread Francois Tigeot
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 06:56:50PM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote: :All I need is to figure out how to remove the 5mins snapshots that :gets mirrored on the slave older than two days with out removing the :daily snapshots. : :But I am a bit confused now since I dont see snapshots actually

Re: Snapshots ordering on slave and pfs according to freequency for snapshot management

2010-04-26 Thread Siju George
On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 11:16 PM, Matthew Dillon dil...@apollo.backplane.com wrote:    So, here's an example.  Lets say you have:        /samba_export           Your samba export hierarchy        /hammer                 Your hammer filesystem        /hammer/pfs/blah        Some PFS in the

Re: Snapshots ordering on slave and pfs according to freequency for snapshot management

2010-04-26 Thread Matthew Dillon
:All I need is to figure out how to remove the 5mins snapshots that :gets mirrored on the slave older than two days with out removing the :daily snapshots. : :But I am a bit confused now since I dont see snapshots actually :removed after a hammer cleanup. :I will send the details with a new

Re: Snapshots ordering on slave and pfs according to freequency for snapshot management

2010-04-24 Thread Matthew Dillon
I've been thinking about the issue of mounting snapshots and I have an idea. In order for a slave snapshot link to work it must reference the @@transactionid:pfsid portion of the softlink relative to the base HAMMER filesystem the PFS was created in. You can do this by

Snapshots ordering on slave and pfs according to freequency for snapshot management

2010-04-23 Thread Siju George
On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 2:22 AM, Matthew Dillon dil...@apollo.backplane.com wrote: :For a MS Windows user it will look like the actual pic below. : :http://picasaweb.google.com/sgeorge.ml/OpenBSDDesktop#5462824618389365522 : :Clicking on the snapshot Directory they can get the snapshot