[indiana-discuss] zfs-auto-snap

[Tim Foster]

dick hoogendijk wrote:
> Will do. It's not the easiest way of doing things. Can't this be made
> more user friendly?

Yes it could be.  Without messing about with the SMF stuff, you can
select which filesystems should be snapshotted at which intervals, eg.

# zfs set com.sun:auto-snapshot=false rpool
# zfs set com.sun:auto-snapshot:hourly=true rpool/export
  etc.

with the usual ZFS inheritance rules being respected.

More at
http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/jds/zfs-snapshot/README.zfs-auto-snapshot.txt
and
http://wikis.sun.com/display/OpenSolarisInfo/How+to+Manage+the+Automatic+ZFS+Snapshot+Service

There is no GUI to tune this more finely, but I suggestions on what
exactly the gui should look like would be welcome.  I think the balance
between what's exposed in the current gui vs. the command line tools is
a good one, in that it avoids this sort of thing:

http://www.ok-cancel.com/strips/okcancel20031010.gif

	cheers,
			tim