[OpenIndiana-discuss] Any have a ready made script to run from cron for snapshots

Sriram Narayanan sriram at belenix.org
Sun Dec 5 21:44:28 UTC 2010


On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 3:07 AM, Harry Putnam <reader at newsguy.com> wrote:
> Before there was a time slider, people must have run snapshots from
> cron or something similar.
>
> Since in 3 tries at new installs, using different media each time has
> resulted in a useless crippled time slider I wondered if any of you
> still have or use some kind of cron driven scripting for snapshots.
>
> I don't want to waste anymore time dinking around with timeslider
> until there is a more robust package.
>
> If any of you have such a script,  would you mind posting it?
>
> I'd sooner have an example as just script it up from scratch.

Please see if this helps:
http://blogs.sun.com/timf/entry/zfs_automatic_snapshots_now_with

-- Sriram

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