Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs-auto-snapshot default schedules

2008-09-25 Thread Jonathan Hogg
On 25 Sep 2008, at 17:14, Darren J Moffat wrote: > Chris Gerhard has a zfs_versions script that might help: > http://blogs.sun.com/chrisg/entry/that_there_is Ah. Cool. I will have to try this out. Jonathan ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@ope

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs-auto-snapshot default schedules

2008-09-25 Thread Darren J Moffat
Jonathan Hogg wrote: > It would be great if there was some way to know if a snapshot contains > blocks for a particular file, i.e., that snapshot contains an earlier > version of the file than the next snapshot / now. If you could do that > and make ls support it with an additional flag/colum

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs-auto-snapshot default schedules

2008-09-25 Thread Wade . Stuart
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 09/25/2008 09:16:48 AM: > On 25 Sep 2008, at 14:40, Ross wrote: > > > For a default setup, I would have thought a years worth of data > > would be enough, something like: > > Given that this can presumably be configured to suit everyone's > particular data retention plan

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs-auto-snapshot default schedules

2008-09-25 Thread Ross
I asked Tim something like that when he posted his last update and from his reply it looks like something is in the works: http://blogs.sun.com/timf/entry/zfs_automatic_snapshots_0_11 He was also blogging about this stuff in 2006 :) http://blogs.sun.com/timf/entry/zfs_on_your_desktop I've also b

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs-auto-snapshot default schedules

2008-09-25 Thread Jonathan Hogg
On 25 Sep 2008, at 14:40, Ross wrote: > For a default setup, I would have thought a years worth of data > would be enough, something like: Given that this can presumably be configured to suit everyone's particular data retention plan, for a default setup, what was originally proposed seems

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs-auto-snapshot default schedules

2008-09-25 Thread Ross
Almost exactly what I was planning to configure here Nils, with a couple of minor changes. I was planning on taking 10 weekly backups since you occasionally get 5 week months, and depending on storage capacity, we're also considering annual snapshots. I quite like Tim's idea of having 31 daily

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs-auto-snapshot default schedules

2008-09-25 Thread Nils Goroll
Tim, > - Frequent snapshots, taken every 15 minutes, keeping the 4 most recent > - Hourly snapshots taken once every hour, keeping 24 > - Daily snapshots taken once every 24 hours, keeping 7 > - Weekly snapshots taken once every 7 days, keeping 4 > - Monthly snapshots taken on the first day o