[OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS send recv soln

[alexei at soemail.rutgers.edu]

Attached is a simple bash script I'm using to create a full backup
 on Sunday, Wednesday and level 1 incrementals between them. A volume name
is specified in the command line after the script name.
It runs through cron for several of my volumes, not thousands like in your
case though. Feel free to modify and use it if you find it helpful.

Regards,
Alexei


> Yes, that's a very fine way to do it and we do it here. I'm afraid our
> python scripts wouldn't be much use to you though. They are very site
> specific. My main point for posting is a word of encouragement.
>
> On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 5:47 PM, Marcus Dillury <marcus at dillury.net> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a customer who would like to use a zfs backup solution for his
>> production zpool. I was thinking of using incremental snapshot
>> send/recv to do this.
>>
>> I was wondering if anyone has any useful scripts that can facilitate
>> the recursive send/recv of approx 2000 zfs datasets. My client has
>> limited technical experience, so I was ideally after something that
>> can automatically remove old snapshots when space becomes constrained.
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>> -Marcus
>>
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