Hi Tim,
thank you for your comments.
Bringing in SMF is an excellent idea and should make what admins like to
do much more elegant.
I guess the question here is to find out:
- What degree of canned functionality is needed to address 80% of every admin's
need.
- Who should provide the functi
On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 10:23:44PM +0100, Tim Foster wrote:
> This could be easily implemented via a set of SMF instances which
> create/destroy cron jobs which would themselves call a simple script
> responsible for taking the snapshots.
There was talk a while back about an extended cron service
Tim Foster stated:
< Hey Constantin,
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< On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 11:37 +0200, Constantin Gonzalez wrote:
< > I took the liberty of renaming the thread to $SUBJECT because I think that
what
< > we really are looking for is an ability for ZFS to automatically manage
snapshot
< > after they have bee
Hey Constantin,
On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 11:37 +0200, Constantin Gonzalez wrote:
> I took the liberty of renaming the thread to $SUBJECT because I think that
> what
> we really are looking for is an ability for ZFS to automatically manage
> snapshot
> after they have been created.
Wow, nice summa
On Mon, 8 May 2006, Bill Sommerfeld wrote:
> I think there may be a middle ground here -- provide some relatively
> simple policy-independent mechanisms in the filesystem to allow admins
> to implement the snapshot/backup management policy of their choice.
>
> I can think of a couple mechanisms wh
I think there may be a middle ground here -- provide some relatively
simple policy-independent mechanisms in the filesystem to allow admins
to implement the snapshot/backup management policy of their choice.
I can think of a couple mechanisms which would help:
- additional admin-defined filesyst
Hi,
thank you for the excellent comments, thoughts and ideas on the
"Properties of ZFS snapshots I'd like to see..." thread.
I took the liberty of renaming the thread to $SUBJECT because I think that what
we really are looking for is an ability for ZFS to automatically manage snapshot
after they
