Hi all, I've created https://sourceforge.net/projects/mdbackup/, please have a look if you're interested. I'm very keen on getting feedback/suggestions/help so feel free to email me off list etc. I've never done anything like this before, so please be gentle :)
I'm currently writing install/admin doco and also end user doco targetted at healthchecking and restores etc. They are about 80% done already, but I do apologize for the tardy doco until they're available. Kind regards, Julius On 12 September 2012 09:52, Julius Roberts <[email protected]> wrote: > I have done this myself but haven't yet got around to releasing it. It's > called mdbackup, is written in perl and basically goes off and connects to a > bunch of remote servers (defined in a file called mdtab) via ssh or a smb > mount, rsyncs the data to a location on your local zpool and then snapshots > the deepest parent zfs filesystem. Another script renames snaps to preserve > them as monthlies or annuals and another script purges the remainder of > snaps based on a retention policy defined in that severs configuration file, > normally 21 nighties, 12 monthly and 7 annuals. It all runs from cronies. It > does lots of nice logging and error checking and has nice health check > scripts which can be used to integrate this with nagios. it's reasonably > mature and stable, I rewrote if from bash to perl a year ago, but in concept > it's been running g for 5 years ago, I started it using solaris express > developers edition, zfs v10. I have 4 servers running mdbackup and I manage > it all using subversion. As for releasing it into the wild I'm happy do do > that, but there are no appropriate licensing statements in any if the files > nor have I considered what licence to even use. I was thinking of pushing > the code to a slave svn instance from which the public can sync if they > like. Pretty busy right now though :) oh it's all documented too. If it > sounds good and you can help some way that would be awesome. Oh and it does > encrypted offsite exports too but I'm not real happy with the performance of > that at this stage, seems to die over 200gb on the few servers I've tested > it on. Anyhow, mdbackup. > > Kind regards Hoolio > > > On Wednesday, 12 September 2012, Mark Creamer <[email protected]> wrote: >> A recent thread caused me to look for open source projects that leverage >> ZFS to backup systems. I found a couple, such as OmniTI's >> Zetaback<http://labs.omniti.com/labs/zetaback>, >> but that one appears to be dead - at least the links don't work and the >> Git >> page shows no recent activity. Nexenta's commercial product for Windows, >> "Delorean", also appears to have been killed (unfortunately without first >> being released to the community as far as I can tell). Wondering if anyone >> knows of any other projects that use scripts or some other method to >> manage >> system backups with zfs. I'm hoping to build on the ideas of someone more >> knowledgeable to automate my snapshot and recovery efforts. >> >> -- >> Mark Creamer >> _______________________________________________ >> OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss >> > > -- > Kind regards, Jules > > <golgy> whats so wrong with plumb? > <hoolio> nothing, in itself. it's just for me, knowing what it means infers > i cannot any longer pretend to not be a complete square when it comes to > computers > <Gryphon> I don't know that knowing anything about plumb turns you into a > nerd, but this conversation already has > <hoolio> are you calling me nerdy? > <checkers> hoolio: you know what initramfs means, AND does. You're lost to > the non-geek world already > <Gryphon> yes > <hoolio> hrm > <hoolio> goodbye cruel world. -- Kind regards, Jules <golgy> whats so wrong with plumb? <hoolio> nothing, in itself. it's just for me, knowing what it means infers i cannot any longer pretend to not be a complete square when it comes to computers <Gryphon> I don't know that knowing anything about plumb turns you into a nerd, but this conversation already has <hoolio> are you calling me nerdy? <checkers> hoolio: you know what initramfs means, AND does. You're lost to the non-geek world already <Gryphon> yes <hoolio> hrm <hoolio> goodbye cruel world. _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
