Re: Snapshots ordering on slave and pfs according to freequency for snapshot management

2010-04-28 Thread Matthew Dillon
:> Yeah, I'm in full agreement with you. :> :> I think I was a bit misanderstood: Hammer performance is *much better* than :> rsnapshot (obviously) but there is no way to easily tell it to keep its :> snapshot distribution in different intervals for archiving purposes. :> This is the one thing rsna

Re: Snapshots ordering on slave and pfs according to freequency for snapshot management

2010-04-28 Thread Siju George
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 4:10 PM, Francois Tigeot wrote: > > Yeah, I'm in full agreement with you. > > I think I was a bit misanderstood: Hammer performance is *much better* than > rsnapshot (obviously) but there is no way to easily tell it to keep its > snapshot distribution in different intervals

Re: Snapshots ordering on slave and pfs according to freequency for snapshot management

2010-04-28 Thread Francois Tigeot
Hi George, On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 03:40:08PM +0530, Siju George wrote: > On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 1:15 PM, Francois Tigeot > wrote: > > I think sysutils/rsnapshot does what you want. It uses hard links to > > simulate snapshots on classic filesystems and manages different ranges > > of snapshots.

Re: Snapshots ordering on slave and pfs according to freequency for snapshot management

2010-04-28 Thread Siju George
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 7:26 AM, Matthew Dillon wrote: > >    hammer cleanup only removes snapshots over X days old.  It can't >    distinguish between fine-grained and coarse-grained snapshots >    that you explicitly tell hammer to make.  You would have to remove >    those yourself (if you want

Re: Snapshots ordering on slave and pfs according to freequency for snapshot management

2010-04-28 Thread Siju George
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 1:15 PM, Francois Tigeot wrote: > I think sysutils/rsnapshot does what you want. It uses hard links to simulate > snapshots on classic filesystems and manages different ranges of snapshots. > > You can specify how much snapshots you want to keep for each range: > > [rsnaps

Re: Snapshots ordering on slave and pfs according to freequency for snapshot management

2010-04-27 Thread Francois Tigeot
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 06:56:50PM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote: > > :All I need is to figure out how to remove the 5mins snapshots that > :gets mirrored on the slave older than two days with out removing the > :daily snapshots. > : > :But I am a bit confused now since I dont see snapshots actually

Re: Snapshots ordering on slave and pfs according to freequency for snapshot management

2010-04-26 Thread Matthew Dillon
:All I need is to figure out how to remove the 5mins snapshots that :gets mirrored on the slave older than two days with out removing the :daily snapshots. : :But I am a bit confused now since I dont see snapshots actually :removed after a hammer cleanup. :I will send the details with a new subjec

Re: Snapshots ordering on slave and pfs according to freequency for snapshot management

2010-04-26 Thread Siju George
On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 11:16 PM, Matthew Dillon wrote: >    So, here's an example.  Lets say you have: > >        /samba_export           Your samba export hierarchy >        /hammer                 Your hammer filesystem >        /hammer/pfs/blah        Some PFS in the hammer filesystem > >    A

Re: Snapshots ordering on slave and pfs according to freequency for snapshot management

2010-04-24 Thread Matthew Dillon
I've been thinking about the issue of mounting snapshots and I have an idea. In order for a slave snapshot link to work it must reference the @@: portion of the softlink relative to the base HAMMER filesystem the PFS was created in. You can do this by creating a dummy sub

Snapshots ordering on slave and pfs according to freequency for snapshot management

2010-04-23 Thread Siju George
On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 2:22 AM, Matthew Dillon wrote: > > :For a MS Windows user it will look like the actual pic below. > : > :http://picasaweb.google.com/sgeorge.ml/OpenBSDDesktop#5462824618389365522 > : > :Clicking on the snapshot Directory they can get the snapshot contents :-) > >    I am to