ZetaWatch VS zfsmanager

Compare ZetaWatch vs zfsmanager and see what are their differences.

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ZetaWatch zfsmanager
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0.0 2.1
over 1 year ago 9 months ago
Objective-C++ Perl
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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ZetaWatch

Posts with mentions or reviews of ZetaWatch. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-11-20.
  • Easy Way for ZFS on Mac with Raid?
    1 project | /r/zfs | 16 Apr 2023
    I wrote ZetaWatch ages ago, but it won't do the setup / installation / pool creation, just some of the administration after that.
  • Which scheme and format should one use for an external SSD on a Mac?
    1 project | /r/mac | 22 Mar 2023
    There is a useful (but not very beautiful) app to put control in the top bar - https://github.com/cbreak-black/ZetaWatch
  • OpenZFS on OS X
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Nov 2022
    After dabbling with early stuff from the sadly scrapped Apple effort, I started my full time Mac ZFS journey in 2011 with the then Z-410, which then became ZEVO which was 10.8 only, and then staying on that (and in turn 10.8 doho) on a Mac Pro 3,1 for a solid 4 years or so. I was really sad when that effort didn't pan out and the company got acquired and then the whole deal was killed, but O3X revived the torch and I moved directly onto that. I've carried my pool forward continuously the whole way, with snapshots and everything, all data scrubbed and known good with no more data rot. It's a damn shame events (software patents) conspired to keep that from becoming a universal native fs, but it's still a wonderful thing and Lundman's amazing consistent efforts have been fantastic. The main site at https://openzfsonosx.org/ has decently active forums for something niche.

    Without Apple on board or a much bigger effort ZFS on the Mac will probably always have some real limitations particularly with the GUI. For one of my desktop systems I've migrated to running my home and data folders as HFS or APFS formatted iSCSI targets, so it's still on ZFS underneath but appears native to macOS (and that also means that the effective death of towers isn't a limit on storage). But this remains an incredible project IMO.

    Also for anyone who wants some limited GUI interaction capability, there is a small project called ZetaWatch [0] which will put some ZFS control into a menubar widget.

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    0: https://github.com/cbreak-black/ZetaWatch/

  • Automating zfs on external drive
    1 project | /r/zfs | 30 Apr 2021
    To auto-import and easily export pools on Mac OS, I wrote https://github.com/cbreak-black/ZetaWatch, it can be configured to auto-mount and auto-unlock encrypted datasets too.
  • ZFS Web GUI
    2 projects | /r/zfs | 5 Mar 2021
    I wrote https://github.com/cbreak-black/ZetaWatch, a ZFS GUI for Mac OS for doing the common jobs: Importing / Exporting pools, unlocking and mounting datasets, starting and monitoring scrubs, and of course looking at the status. I did this in the form of a Menu Bar widget. That makes more sense than a web page, since it's always available / visible.

zfsmanager

Posts with mentions or reviews of zfsmanager. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-03-05.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing ZetaWatch and zfsmanager you can also consider the following projects:

zfs - OpenZFS on OS X

cockpit-zfs-manager - Cockpit ZFS Manager is an interactive ZFS on Linux admin package for Cockpit.

clipper-lite - 6mb clone of the original 165mb Clipper! Made with Sciter instead of Electron.

democratic-csi - csi storage for container orchestration systems

ZFSStatusScript - Menu bar app to provide ZFS zpool status

linux - XanMod: Linux kernel source code tree

znapzend - zfs backup with remote capabilities and mbuffer integration.

freenas-proxmox - ZFS over iSCSI to FreeNAS API's from Proxmox VE

zfstools - Various ZFS scripts. Most notably, zfs-auto-snapshot, a ruby clone of OpenSolaris auto snapshotting

zfsbootmenu - ZFS Bootloader for root-on-ZFS systems with support for snapshots and native full disk encryption

wbmclamav - wbmclamav is a Webmin module for ClamAV antivirus.

check-zfs-replication - This script checks yout ZFS replication an generates reports in different flavours or can act as checkmk agent plugin (local check).