Re: [zfs-discuss] About snapshots or versioned backups

2009-03-30 Thread Harry Putnam
Blake writes: > There is a bug where the automatic snapshot service dies if there are > multiple boot environments. Do you have these? I think you can check > with Update Manager. Yeah I have them but due to another bug beadm can't destroy/remove any. Update manager/Be manager can't delete th

Re: [zfs-discuss] About snapshots or versioned backups

2009-03-30 Thread Blake
There is a bug where the automatic snapshot service dies if there are multiple boot environments. Do you have these? I think you can check with Update Manager. On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 7:20 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: >> you need zfs list -t snapshot >> >> by default, snapshots aren't shown in zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] About snapshots or versioned backups

2009-03-30 Thread Harry Putnam
> you need zfs list -t snapshot > > by default, snapshots aren't shown in zfs list anymore, hence the -t option > Yikes, I've got dozens of the things... I monkeyed around a bit with timeslider but thought I canceled out whatever settings I'd messed with. Frequent and hourly both are way to ofte

Re: [zfs-discuss] About snapshots or versioned backups

2009-03-30 Thread Blake
you need zfs list -t snapshot by default, snapshots aren't shown in zfs list anymore, hence the -t option On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 11:41 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: > Richard Elling writes: > >> It can go very fine, though you'll need to set the parameters yourself, >> if you want to use different

Re: [zfs-discuss] About snapshots or versioned backups

2009-03-30 Thread Harry Putnam
Richard Elling writes: > It can go very fine, though you'll need to set the parameters yourself, > if you want to use different settings. A few weeks ago, I posted a way > to see the settings, which the time slider admin tool won't show. There > is a diminishing return for exposing such complex

Re: [zfs-discuss] About snapshots or versioned backups

2009-03-29 Thread Richard Elling
Harry Putnam wrote: Richard Elling writes: Cake. See below... At high risk of sounding very stupid... I guess Cake went right over my head. Unless its short for `piece of cake'. Ok now you now you know how deep seated that vein of dimness really is. [...] and eat it, too... :

Re: [zfs-discuss] About snapshots or versioned backups

2009-03-29 Thread Harry Putnam
Richard Elling writes: > Cake. See below... At high risk of sounding very stupid... I guess Cake went right over my head. Unless its short for `piece of cake'. Ok now you now you know how deep seated that vein of dimness really is. [...] > Administration -> Time Slider > >> The end goal bei

Re: [zfs-discuss] About snapshots or versioned backups

2009-03-29 Thread Andrew Gabriel
Harry Putnam wrote: This may be a bit poorly thought through but in this case I don't really know enough to really think it through. My back ground is linux... there I used a tool called rsnapshot which used rsync and some hardlink magic to create versioned backups. But take very little space.

Re: [zfs-discuss] About snapshots or versioned backups

2009-03-29 Thread Richard Elling
Cake. See below... Harry Putnam wrote: This may be a bit poorly thought through but in this case I don't really know enough to really think it through. My back ground is linux... there I used a tool called rsnapshot which used rsync and some hardlink magic to create versioned backups. But take

[zfs-discuss] About snapshots or versioned backups

2009-03-29 Thread Harry Putnam
This may be a bit poorly thought through but in this case I don't really know enough to really think it through. My back ground is linux... there I used a tool called rsnapshot which used rsync and some hardlink magic to create versioned backups. But take very little space. By versioned I don't m