Sriram Narayanan <sri...@belenix.org> writes: > On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 3:07 AM, Harry Putnam <rea...@newsguy.com> wrote: >> Before there was a time slider, people must have run snapshots from >> cron or something similar. >> >> Since in 3 tries at new installs, using different media each time has >> resulted in a useless crippled time slider I wondered if any of you >> still have or use some kind of cron driven scripting for snapshots. >> >> I don't want to waste anymore time dinking around with timeslider >> until there is a more robust package. >> >> If any of you have such a script, would you mind posting it? >> >> I'd sooner have an example as just script it up from scratch. > > Please see if this helps: > http://blogs.sun.com/timf/entry/zfs_automatic_snapshots_now_with
Wow... pretty interesting but seems not ready for prime time just yet. Are you using it?... If you scroll down the page a ways you find that the author has been yet gotten things working in the case of failure and in his words: Finally, I'm trying hard to do the right thing in the face of failure. The service will move to maintenance should a backup fail for any reason, and the cron job should be removed in that case Where as if it were just a simple cron job running a less grand scheme it would just run again next time... so in the case of things like momentary los of network or whatever the job wouldn't get retired completely. I was thinking more of plain scripting and cron. I can do that my self but it will take `some' amount of time. I just thought maybe someone else had done something I could use and change for my usage. However the work you pointed too looks like it will be a very nice tool once some of the wrinkles are ironed out. _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss