Jean,
Sorry for the delay, wanted to make sure the house was in
order after my return.
Will schedule a test on a single glob (not all 26 of them)
for tonight and see if we can't tell what happens.
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 02:35:41PM -0400, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote:
> Brian,
>
> It should create a different snapshot for each DLE, if not, then it is a
> missing feature of amzfs-snapshot.
> Can you test it and confirm it it works or not?
>
> Jean-Louis
>
> Brian Cuttler wrote:
> >Jean-Louis,
> >
> >
> >>This will create two snapshot of /export/home, if they include the
> >>subdirs, then it should works.
> >>It must be tried.
> >>
> >
> >but if the snapshots have the same name, /export/home-amanda current,
> >then the second, 3rd... will fail. I have to wonder what happens to
> >uncompleted dumps when the first dump completes and attempts to destroy
> >the snapshot.
> >
> >--
> >
> >I've been away (10-days in Germany) and I no longer recall if
> >I was afraid of leaving as largely untested globing config behind.
> >
> >I left it with dumptype user-tar rather than zfs-snapshot and we
> >have been successfull.
> >
> >I have to note however that the zfs manager is running a nightly
> >snapshot of the zfs mount points each day. A 5/weekly recursive
> >snapshot of the pool, where each new "monday" snapshot destroyes
> >the old and creates a new one. We still have snapshots, but not
> >through amanda. I believe the idea was to allow user directed
> >file recovery, since old files will remain available for 7 days.
> >
> >I may give this (zfs-snapshot) a try in this config now that I
> >am back. If so I will let you know the result. Dangerous to assume
> >I've tested and not resported.
> >
> > thank you,
> >
> > Brian
> >
> >On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 10:53:51AM -0400, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote:
> >
> >>Brian Cuttler wrote:
> >>
> >>>Using amanda 2.6.1 on Solaris 10 (server x86, client Sparc)
> >>>
> >>>I currently have entries in the disklist like these, currently
> >>>there are 55+ entries.
> >>>
> >>>finsen /export/home/agaupel zfs-snapshot
> >>>finsen /export/home/along zfs-snapshot
> >>>finsen /export/home/amanda zfs-snapshot
> >>>finsen /export/home/bhowland zfs-snapshot
> >>>finsen /export/home/brainard zfs-snapshot
> >>>finsen /export/home/cbryant zfs-snapshot
> >>>finsen /export/home/cchen zfs-snapshot
> >>>finsen /export/home/dkim zfs-snapshot
> >>>finsen /export/home/dmuller zfs-snapshot
> >>>
> >>>Each user directory is its own zfs mount point.
> >>>
> >>>Can I successfully replace them with entries like this ?
> >>>
> >>>I think this will do what I think it does, because I do it
> >>>on other machines, but the zfs-snapshot is a new addition
> >>>to this structure.
> >>>
> >>>finsen /export/home-A /export/home {
> >>> zfs-snapshot
> >>> include "./[a]*"
> >>> }
> >>>
> >>>finsen /export/home-B /export/home {
> >>> zfs-snapshot
> >>> include "./[b]*"
> >>> }
> >>>
> >>>
> >>This will create two snapshot of /export/home, if they include the
> >>subdirs, then it should works.
> >>It must be tried.
> >>
> >>Jean-Louis
> >>
> >>
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