[OpenIndiana-discuss] zfs-auto-snapshot yet again

[Roman Naumenko]

Hi,

Just wanted to ask if this is the latest version of time-slider?

data:~$ pkginfo -l SUNWgnome-time-slider
    PKGINST:  SUNWgnome-time-slider
       NAME:  Time Slider ZFS snapshot management for GNOME
   CATEGORY:  GNOME2,application,JDSoi
       ARCH:  i386
    VERSION:  0.2.97,REV=110.0.4.2011.04.17.15.25
    BASEDIR:  /
     VENDOR:  Sun Microsystems, Inc.
       DESC:  Time Slider ZFS snapshot management for GNOME
   INSTDATE:  Feb 26 2013 07:39
    HOTLINE:  Please contact your local service provider
     STATUS:  completely installed

It's not managing snapshots very reliably.
For example, an error below is similar to what was discussed here https://www.illumos.org/issues/1013 couple of year ago.

tail /var/svc/log/application-time-slider\:default.log
Snapshot monitor thread exited.
[ Mar 17 23:51:50 Stopping because all processes in service exited. ]
[ Mar 17 23:51:50 Executing stop method (:kill). ]
[ Mar 17 23:51:50 Executing start method ("/lib/svc/method/time-slider start"). ]
[ Mar 17 23:51:52 Method "start" exited with status 0. ]
[ Mar 18 20:55:31 Enabled. ]
[ Mar 18 20:56:09 Executing start method ("/lib/svc/method/time-slider start"). ]
[ Mar 18 20:56:16 Method "start" exited with status 0. ]
Failed to create snapshots for schedule: daily
Caught RuntimeError exception in snapshot manager thread
Error details:
--------BEGIN ERROR MESSAGE--------
['/usr/bin/pfexec', '/usr/sbin/zfs', 'snapshot', '-r', 'pool1/groupd/vol1 at zfs-auto-snap_daily-2013-03-18-23h51'] failed with exit code 1
cannot create snapshot 'pool1/groupd/vol1/snap20130315 at zfs-auto-snap_daily-2013-03-18-23h51': dataset already exists
no snapshots were created

Has anybody had positive experience with zfs-auto-snapshot and what version you're using then?

--Roman