Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS send recv soln

2012-01-09 Thread alexei
Attached is a simple bash script I'm using to create a full backup on Sunday, Wednesday and level 1 incrementals between them. A volume name is specified in the command line after the script name. It runs through cron for several of my volumes, not thousands like in your case though. Feel free to

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS send recv soln

2012-01-09 Thread Jason Matthews
onday, January 09, 2012 2:48 PM To: openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org Subject: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS send recv soln Hi, I have a customer who would like to use a zfs backup solution for his production zpool. I was thinking of using incremental snapshot send/recv to do this. I was wondering if a

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS send recv soln

2012-01-09 Thread Doug Hughes
Yes, that's a very fine way to do it and we do it here. I'm afraid our python scripts wouldn't be much use to you though. They are very site specific. My main point for posting is a word of encouragement. On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 5:47 PM, Marcus Dillury wrote: > Hi, > > I have a customer who would

[OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS send recv soln

2012-01-09 Thread Marcus Dillury
Hi, I have a customer who would like to use a zfs backup solution for his production zpool. I was thinking of using incremental snapshot send/recv to do this. I was wondering if anyone has any useful scripts that can facilitate the recursive send/recv of approx 2000 zfs datasets. My client has li