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

[DormitionSkete@hotmail.com]

On Mar 18, 2013, at 10:00 PM, Roman Naumenko wrote:

> 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
> 

Well, nobody else has piped in, so I guess I will, for what it's worth.

My pkginfo looks the same as yours.  My logs don't show any errors, thank God.  (I did  a "cat" on it, too.  No errors.)

I'm not sure how helpful it is to you.  The bug report you mentioned was for more complex configurations.  Mine is a a simple, default configuration.  

Apparently, from what others have said on this list, you have to change the root password before enabling the time slider -- at least for the gui, anyway, as I understand.  

I had already done that.  Then I went into the gui app, and enabled Time Slider with the defaults.

I hope this helps.

fp


dsadmin at trinity.dsicons.net:~$ su
Password: 
dsadmin at trinity.dsicons.net:~# 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:  Oct 04 2012 23:26
   HOTLINE:  Please contact your local service provider
    STATUS:  completely installed

dsadmin at trinity.dsicons.net:~# tail /var/svc/log/application-time-slider\:default.log
[ Mar 18 15:00:25 Executing start method ("/lib/svc/method/time-slider start"). ]
[ Mar 18 15:00:37 Method "start" exited with status 0. ]
[ Mar 18 22:26:55 Stopping because service disabled. ]
[ Mar 18 22:26:55 Executing stop method (:kill). ]
[ Mar 19 15:04:51 Enabled. ]
[ Mar 19 15:05:02 Executing start method ("/lib/svc/method/time-slider start"). ]
[ Mar 19 15:05:18 Method "start" exited with status 0. ]
[ Mar 19 16:13:22 Enabled. ]
[ Mar 19 16:13:46 Executing start method ("/lib/svc/method/time-slider start"). ]
[ Mar 19 16:14:05 Method "start" exited with status 0. ]
dsadmin at trinity.dsicons.net:~#