There's zrep for (remote) replication: <http://www.bolthole.com/solaris/zrep/> -f
2012/9/13 Julius Roberts <[email protected]>: > 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 _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
