[OpenIndiana-discuss] About auto snapshots

[Michael McDonnell]

On 25/10/2011 14:58, Gernot Wolf wrote:
> Am 22.10.11 01:53, schrieb Jeppe Toustrup:
>> Auto-snapshots are unfortunately not working in b151, please see
>> "Known issues" in the release notes:
>> http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/oi_151a+Release+Notes
>
> Well, this is strange... because I recently upgraded an OSOL box 
> (build snv_134) at my office to oi_151a. The OSOL box had 
> auto-snapshots enabled, and they continue working just fine.
>
> It's a bit different now, I see a lot more "frequent" snapshots than 
> before, and the ":" in the names of the snapshots has been replaced by 
> a "_", but else everything is as before.
>
> So why is this feature working on my box when according to "known 
> issues" it shouldn't, and obviously isn't working on other oi-151a 
> boxes...???
>
> Not that I want to complain ;) - just curious...
>
> Regards,
> Gernot Wolf
>
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I also seemed to have snapshots working correctly but not any longer. My 
issue is that only the most current snapshot is saved, this was enable 
~7AM this morning.
tank/docs at zfs-auto-snap_monthly-2011-10-30-16h31       0      -   471M  -
tank/docs at zfs-auto-snap_hourly-2011-10-31-12h15        0      -   471M  -
tank/docs at zfs-auto-snap_frequent-2011-10-31-12h45      0      -   471M  -