On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 08:27:42AM +0200, Carsten John wrote: > Hello everybody, > > is there any known way to configure the point-in-time *when* the time-slider > will snapshot/rotate? > > With hundreds of zfs filesystems, the daily snapshot rotation slows down a > big file server significantly, so it would be better to have the snapshots > rotated outside the usual workhours. > > As as I found out so far, the first snapshot is taken when the service is > restartet and then the next occurs 24 hour later (as supposed). Do I need to > restart the service at 2:00 AM to get the desired result (not a big deal deal > with /usr/bin/at, but not as straight forward as I would exspect). > > Any suggestions?
You could try manually making a "zfs-auto-snap_daily-blahblah" snapshot at the desired time, and then restarting the service, which should then follow accordingly for subsequent days. -- Dan.
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