> It would be nice to have a single place to define "keep the 6 most > recent hourly snaps, then a nightly for the next 7 days" > > Whether the snapshots are created/removed from within the ZFS stack, > or from a cron job that reads the config doesn't matter, but having > the configuration tied to the filesystem would be nice. You would > inherit a snapshot schedule and retention policy, just like other > filesystem properties. >
+1. I have an (unpretty) script that does these things, but it would be good to think of a backup schedule as effectively a filesystem attribute. This decreases the number of scripts needed and the number of things to forget when rolling out a new system. Chris _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
