Re: [zfs-discuss] Incremental backup via zfs send / zfs receive

2009-09-21 Thread David Pacheco
Frank Middleton wrote: The problem with the regular stream is that most of the file system properties (such as mountpoint) are not copied as they are with a recursive stream. This may seem an advantage to some, (e.g., if the remote mountpoint is already in use, the mountpoint seems to default to

Re: [zfs-discuss] Incremental backup via zfs send / zfs receive

2009-09-20 Thread Frank Middleton
A while back I posted a script that does individual send/recvs for each file system, sending incremental streams if the remote file system exists, and regular streams if not. The reason for doing it this way rather than a full recursive stream is that there's no way to avoid sending certain file

Re: [zfs-discuss] Incremental backup via zfs send / zfs receive

2009-09-20 Thread Peter Pickford
just destroy the swap snapshot and it doesn't get sent when you do a full send 2009/9/20 Frank Middleton f.middle...@apogeect.com: A while back I posted a script that does individual send/recvs for each file system, sending incremental streams if the remote file system exists, and regular

Re: [zfs-discuss] Incremental backup via zfs send / zfs receive

2009-09-08 Thread Frank Middleton
On 09/07/09 07:29 PM, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: Is anybody doing this [zfs send/recv] routinely now on 2009-6 OpenSolaris, and if so can I see your commands? Wouldn't a simple recursive send/recv work in your case? I imagine all kinds of folks are doing it already. The only problem with it,

[zfs-discuss] Incremental backup via zfs send / zfs receive

2009-09-07 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
Under my OpenSolaris 2008-11 install I reached the conclusion this didn't work due to a combination of bugs. Is this fixed in 2009-6? Specifically, I want to do a nightly incremental send from the most recent common snapshot and apply it to an external (USB) drive also formatted as ZFS. I