sanoid
These are policy-driven snapshot management and replication tools which use OpenZFS for underlying next-gen storage. (Btrfs support plans are shelved unless and until btrfs becomes reliable.) (by jimsalterjrs)
zfs-auto-snapshot
ZFS Automatic Snapshot Service for Linux (by zfsonlinux)
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sanoid
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- ZFS took full backup (send/receive) without snapshots but now what to prevent another full transfer?
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ZFS for Dummies
I’m on the other end of the spectrum. I like knowing the flags and settings I use to create the pools.
For snapshots and replication take a look at sanoid (https://github.com/jimsalterjrs/sanoid).
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Automatic container snapshots? cv4pve or zfs for a small homelab?
I use a combo of PBS and ZFS with Sanoid. The ZFS snapshots are nice because you define it all in a config file with frequent, hourly, daily, weekly, monthly snaps retained however you want. Importantly I use that on the root pool as well as my data pools. With PBS I have a custom retention config and have it backing up VMs and LXCs every couple hours. The PBS dedupe functionality makes it possible to keep full backups going back ages with minimal storage consumption, just the changed blocks. PBS is running inside a VM yes, but it’s storage is on another pool.
- [QUESTION] Dataset level replication
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YSK: You can 'zfs send' over SSH to the cloud
[3] https://github.com/jimsalterjrs/sanoid/
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New to ZFS, what layout to choose for 4x20TB drives?
No, it's written by the developer of Sanoid and Syncoid. The foremost open source ZFS snapshotting tool. He contributes on this sub all the time.
- Python Port of 600 Line Bash Script: rsync-time-machine.py for Rsync Backups
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Some questions about the limitations of ZFS send.
Hi there! Not so much to answer your questions, but are you aware of Sanoid and syncoid? It does backup and remote Sync in the most seamless way. Perhaps this would solve some of your concerns...
- Help me understand zfs send for incremental send AND replication?
- Ask HN: Why isn't BTRFS the default FS in home-oriented Linux distributions?
zfs-auto-snapshot
Posts with mentions or reviews of zfs-auto-snapshot.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-23.
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Automatic container snapshots? cv4pve or zfs for a small homelab?
From my research, I can see two options: - Proxmox specific cv4pve-autosnap - generic zfs-auto-snapshot, available in repos
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Some Proxmox Backup, Snapshot and Storage questions
Since Proxmox natively supports ZFS, you could that to make your snapshots. You can do automatic snapshots with zfs-auto-snapshot or for VMs with cv4pve-autosnap.
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zfs hourly snapshot - snapshot naming interpretation needed
If you're using zfs-auto-snapshot (and it looks like you are), note that the timestamps are always in UTC, not your local timezone. Is your timezone somewhere around UTC-12:00?
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Install with zfs via chroot
$ edescribe zfs net-analyzer/munin-plugins-zfs::gentoo A Munin plugin for monitoring ZFS on Linux (https://github.com/alexclear/ZoL-munin-plugin) sec-keys/openpgp-keys-openzfs::gentoo OpenPGP keys used to sign OpenZFS releases (https://openzfs.github.io/openzfs-docs/) sec-policy/selinux-zfs::gentoo SELinux policy for zfs (https://openzfs.github.io/openzfs-docs/) sys-fs/zfs::gentoo Userland utilities for ZFS Linux kernel module (https://github.com/openzfs/zfs) sys-fs/zfs-auto-snapshot::gentoo ZFS Automatic Snapshot Service for Linux (https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs-auto-snapshot) sys-fs/zfs-kmod::gentoo Linux ZFS kernel module for sys-fs/zfs (https://github.com/openzfs/zfs) sys-boot/zfsbootmenu::guru ZFS bootloader for root-on-ZFS systems (https://zfsbootmenu.org)
- Syncthing, Backup & ignoreDeletes
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How to use Cron command to create zfs snapshots every hour with naming the time?
You may want to skip trying to manage these manually and use something like this: https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs-auto-snapshot
- ZFS Automatic Snapshot Service for Linux
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$ rm Important.txt (uh oh)
Not every operation, but it's easily automated. https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs-auto-snapshot
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Maybe a very uncommon use for sanoid: setup for snapshots 2 daily
zfs-auto-snapshot is as simple as it comes. It has cron jobs that show you how to take periodic snapshots. It cleans up its old versions.
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Snapshots and replication with zfs hold and zfs release
Another option to look at (again, 3rd part stuff, not vanilla zfs hold/release stuff) is zfs-auto-snapshot which takes (and retains) n snapshots based on how you run it. See: https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs-auto-snapshot
What are some alternatives?
When comparing sanoid and zfs-auto-snapshot you can also consider the following projects:
zrepl - One-stop ZFS backup & replication solution
zfs_autobackup - ZFS autobackup is used to periodicly backup ZFS filesystems to other locations. Easy to use and very reliable.
znapzend - zfs backup with remote capabilities and mbuffer integration.
zfsbud - ZFS snapshotting, replicating & backup rotating convenience bash script
zfsnap - A portable, performant script to make rolling ZFS snapshots easy. (https://github.com/zfsnap/zfsnap/issues/109)
zfs - OpenZFS on Linux and FreeBSD
UrBackup - UrBackup - Client/Server Open Source Network Backup for Windows, MacOS and Linux
seaweedfs - SeaweedFS is a fast distributed storage system for blobs, objects, files, and data lake, for billions of files! Blob store has O(1) disk seek, cloud tiering. Filer supports Cloud Drive, cross-DC active-active replication, Kubernetes, POSIX FUSE mount, S3 API, S3 Gateway, Hadoop, WebDAV, encryption, Erasure Coding.
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