Re: [Veritas-bu] Backing up ZFS snapshots

2007-03-09 Thread Darren Dunham
> Nah, that's exactly the route, that I do NOT want to go. To quote > my OP: > > | I don't really > | want to go the route of having to add /pool/Teamcenter/.zfs/snapshot/backup > | to the Backup Selections of a policy, as this would mean, that > | the Backup Selections would have to be updated, w

Re: [Veritas-bu] Backing up ZFS snapshots

2007-03-09 Thread Johnson, Eric
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Backing up ZFS snapshots Johnson, Eric schrieb: > You can control whether the .zfs directory for snapshots is visible or > not woth the "zfs set snapdir=visible " option. I know - but how does that solve the problem? If .zfs were visible, wouldn'

Re: [Veritas-bu] Backing up ZFS snapshots

2007-03-08 Thread Alexander Skwar
"Mike L. Varney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > What if you started the backup as a User Backup from the client at the end > of your script which created the snapshot? Ah, now I remember the problem I had, when I initially thought about User Backups: How do I make a User Backup be a Incremental Backup (

Re: [Veritas-bu] Backing up ZFS snapshots

2007-03-08 Thread Alexander Skwar
Darren Dunham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>> What if you started the backup as a User Backup from the client at the >>> end of your script which created the snapshot? >> >> Hm, interesting idea. What should the client then specify to backup? >> I mean, which directory? > > Since the client knows the

Re: [Veritas-bu] Backing up ZFS snapshots

2007-03-08 Thread Ed Wilts
On 3/8/2007 10:27 AM, Alexander Skwar wrote: > Hello. > > On one of the servers which are backed up with NBU 6.0 MP4, > we're using Solaris 10 and also ZFS. To keep the backup window > as short as possible, I'm creating ZFS snapshots just before > the backup policy gets run. I do that "manually" w

Re: [Veritas-bu] Backing up ZFS snapshots

2007-03-08 Thread Darren Dunham
> > What if you started the backup as a User Backup from the client at the > > end of your script which created the snapshot? > > Hm, interesting idea. What should the client then specify to backup? > I mean, which directory? Since the client knows the snapshot involved, it could give the correc

Re: [Veritas-bu] Backing up ZFS snapshots

2007-03-08 Thread Mike L. Varney
-- M Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/08/2007 04:54 PM Please respond to veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu To cc veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject Re: [Veritas-bu] Backing up ZFS snapshots Mike L. Varney schrieb: > > NetBackup would h

Re: [Veritas-bu] Backing up ZFS snapshots

2007-03-08 Thread Alexander Skwar
Johnson, Eric schrieb: > You can control whether the .zfs directory for snapshots is visible or > not woth the "zfs set snapdir=visible " option. I know - but how does that solve the problem? If .zfs were visible, wouldn't this make even more problems? Suppose I'd backup /pool, this would cause t

Re: [Veritas-bu] Backing up ZFS snapshots

2007-03-08 Thread Alexander Skwar
Mike L. Varney schrieb: > > NetBackup would happily backup the symlink as if it were an individual > file. It would not follow the link. Exactly. > What if you started the backup as a User Backup from the client at the > end of your script which created the snapshot? Hm, interesting idea. Wh

Re: [Veritas-bu] Backing up ZFS snapshots

2007-03-08 Thread Johnson, Eric
system as discussed in the "Snapshots" section. The default value is "hidden". Eric -Original Message- From: Alexander Skwar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2007 10:28 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Backing

Re: [Veritas-bu] Backing up ZFS snapshots

2007-03-08 Thread Mike L. Varney
ect Re: [Veritas-bu] Backing up ZFS snapshots Have you tried a symlink into the snapshot dir? Karl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 03/08/2007 10:27:42 AM: > Hello. > > On one of the servers which are backed up with NBU 6.0 MP4, > we're using Solaris 10 and also ZFS. To keep the b

Re: [Veritas-bu] Backing up ZFS snapshots

2007-03-08 Thread Karl . Rossing
Have you tried a symlink into the snapshot dir? Karl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 03/08/2007 10:27:42 AM: > Hello. > > On one of the servers which are backed up with NBU 6.0 MP4, > we're using Solaris 10 and also ZFS. To keep the backup window > as short as possible, I'm creating ZFS snapshots ju

[Veritas-bu] Backing up ZFS snapshots

2007-03-08 Thread Alexander Skwar
Hello. On one of the servers which are backed up with NBU 6.0 MP4, we're using Solaris 10 and also ZFS. To keep the backup window as short as possible, I'm creating ZFS snapshots just before the backup policy gets run. I do that "manually" with a script, eg. like this: "zfs snapshot pool/[EMAIL PR