On 2012-10-17 13:54, Peter Ross wrote: > On Wed, 17 Oct 2012, Craig Sanders wrote: > > > There may be some exceptions where the VM needs to run ZFS itself > > on a bunch of zvols, but the only real use-case i've found is for > > experimenting with and testing zfs itself (e.g. i've created numerous > > zvols of a few hundred MB each and used them in a VM to create a zpool > > from them) > > > > being able to snapshot and zfs send within the VM itself could be useful. > > OTOH rsync provides a similar incremental backup. > > I have a samba server, and it is very handy to clone and mount yesterday's > snapshot to retrieve data quickly.
Peter, if you don't already know about it, and are running Windows desktops, you may like to investigate the Samba Shadow Copy VFS modules: http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/VFS.html#id2651694 It makes snapshots acecssible via the "Previous Versions" tab of the Windows File Properties dialogue box. -- Regards, Matthew Cengia
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