[OpenIndiana-discuss] time-slider is snapshotting swap and dump after upgrading to oi_147

[Albert Lee]

On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 1:35 PM, Jeremy Thornhill
<jeremy.thornhill at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> I've encountered a bizarre situation with time-slider on OI 147. As
> background, this is a x86 system that's been upgraded from OpenSolaris
> snv_133, and the time-slider configuration I'm using is unmodified
> post-upgrade (save for disabling the legacy time-slider-cleanup cron
> job).
>
> What I see is that rpool/swap and rpool/dump - which are both
> configured with 'com.sun:auto-snapshot = false' - are being
> snapshotted at every possible interval. Additionally, it seems that
> time-slider is not ever cleaning up these snapshots, even when they
> have a "USED" value of 0. This results in hundreds of empty snapshots
> being created which I've had to manually remove. Auto snapshots for
> other filesystems, however, seem to be both created and destroyed as
> expected; indeed, I have other filesystems with 'com.sun:auto-snapshot
> = false', and they are not being snapshotted.
>
> Does anybody have an idea of what's going on, or how I can work around
> this? I've upgraded all pools and volumes and I'm really not sure what
> the issue here could be. I even fired up the time-slider-setup gui for
> kicks, but it seems hard coded to ignore swap and dump entirely, as
> they weren't visible at all in any of its options.
>

Can you check crontab -e as root and ensure nothing related to
auto-snapshot is still present?

-Albert