ZFS auto snapshots

[morph027]

Just tested this (being used to this from BSD)...Might be worth to pack this into an upcoming pve release (or at least the wiki page)

https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs-auto-snapshot

wget https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs-auto-snapshot/archive/master.zip
unzip master.zip
cd zfs-auto-snapshot-master
make install

Managing auto snapshot is done using zfs dataset properties, like in this example:

zfs set com.sun:auto-snapshot=true tank/backup
zfs set com.sun:auto-snapshot:monthly=false tank/backup
zfs set com.sun:auto-snapshot:weekly=false tank/backup
zfs set com.sun:auto-snapshot:daily=true tank/backup
zfs set com.sun:auto-snapshot:hourly=false tank/backup
zfs set com.sun:auto-snapshot:frequent=false tank/backup

 

[morph027]

Fix for PATH foo

cd /usr/sbin
ln -s /usr/local/sbin/zfs-auto-snapshot .

 

[elurex]

thank you for this post! it is very useful!

 

[morph027]

TY...liked it..until i've found this: https://github.com/oetiker/znapzend

This also allows to define plans on source and multiple targets (be it disc or remote zfs via ssh). Great! This way i've build a pseudo-HA-cluster

 

[pro lamer]

Excuse me resurrecting an old thread (I'm a noob and don't even know when one can resurrect or not. Edit: I resurrected this one because it was the first or second proxmox zfs automatic snapshot web search result) but what about pve-zsync ?
https://www.servethehome.com/automating-proxmox-backups-with-pve-zsync/

ATM I'm learning proxmox VE 5.4

Sent from my phone

 

[morph027]

in 2015, there was no pve-zsync yet

Of course, today you should use it.