Hi all, I'm trying to understand the "external backup" feature of Time Slider Manager in Solaris 11 Express. In the window, I have "Replicate backups to an external drive" checked. The "Backup Device" is the mount point of my backup drive. In "File Systems To Back Up," "Select" and "Replicate" are checked for everything except the backup filesystem.
After having set this a few times, only two filesystems have been backed up: my root fs, and an fs for one of my zones. These are located at "/backup/TIMESLIDER/hostname/fsname". I let it sit for a few weeks and checked again, thinking maybe it would start with a weekly snapshot or something, but this does not seem to be the case. Restarting the time-slider and auto-snapshot processes doesn't seem to do anything either and there is no relevant info in any of the relevant SMF log files. My understanding is that this feature is supposed to replicate via rsync all Time Slider snapshots for all filesystems that have been selected to replicate, to the backup drive. I wonder if this understanding is incorrect, or if I'm doing something wrong. The relevant time-slider services appear as follows: online Jun_11 svc:/application/time-slider:default online Jun_11 svc:/system/filesystem/zfs/auto-snapshot:daily online Jun_11 svc:/system/filesystem/zfs/auto-snapshot:monthly online Jun_11 svc:/system/filesystem/zfs/auto-snapshot:frequent online Jun_11 svc:/system/filesystem/zfs/auto-snapshot:weekly online Jun_11 svc:/system/filesystem/zfs/auto-snapshot:hourly online Jun_11 svc:/application/time-slider/plugin:rsync The capacity of the backup drive is 928GB; the total capacity of all filesystems to back up is 1161GB, however, only 410GB are used. Thanks, Alex -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org
