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
Aaron Epps wrote:
Thanks for the info, it looks like this is exactly what I need. However, I'm
curious as to why the guys at Sun that are working on this aren't building
the ZFS GUI Administration into the existing, web-based ZFS Administration
tool? It seems that they're developing a GUI
I would think that as an administrator of a ZFS storage pool, part of your
administration would consist of setting up snapshots at various intervals for
the different file systems. This functionality seems like something that should
be added to the web-based admin tool. Again, I'm comparing ZFS
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
I haven't used it myself, but the following blog describes an automatic
snapshot facility:
http://blogs.sun.com/timf/entry/zfs_automatic_snapshots_0_10
I agree that it would be nice to have this type of functionality built into the
base product, however.
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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?
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 1:21 AM, sean walmsley
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I haven't used it myself, but the following blog describes an automatic
On Apr 9, 2008, at 6:54 PM, Wee Yeh Tan 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?
I suspect that the people requesting this really want a unified
management tool (GUI and possibly
Thanks for the info, it looks like this is exactly what I need. However, I'm
curious as to why the guys at Sun that are working on this aren't building the
ZFS GUI Administration into the existing, web-based ZFS Administration tool? It
seems that they're developing a GUI for the GNOME desktop.
Oh, one more thing
- a tool to schedule the deletion of snapshots (Keep the past 14 Daily, 4
Weekly, 6 Monthly, etc.)
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