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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?
zfsnapr
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Kopia: Open-Source, Fast and Secure Open-Source Backup Software
FreeBSD had a pretty decent option in the base system two decades ago - FFS snapshots and a stock backup tool that would use them automatically with minimal effort, dump(8). Just chuck `-L` at it and your backups are consistent.
Now of course it's all about ZFS, so there's at least snapshots paired with replication - but the story for anything else is still pretty bad, with you having to put all the fiddly pieces together. I'm sure some people taught their backup tool about their special named backup snapshots sprinkled about in `.zfs/snapshot` directories, but given the fiddly nature of it I'm also sure most people just ended up YOLOing raw directories, temporal-smearing be damned.
I know I did!
I finally got around to fixing that last year with zfsnapr[1]. `zfsnapr mount /mnt/backup` and there's a snapshot of the system - all datasets, mounted recursively - ready for whatever backup tool of the year is.
I'm kind of disappointed in mentioning it over on the Practical ZFS forum that the response was not "why didn't you just use ", but "I can see why that might be useful".
Well, yes, it makes backups actually work.
> Also, it's unclear to me what happens if you attempt a snapshot in the middle of something like a database transaction or even a basic file write. Seems likely that the snapshot would still be corrupted
A snapshot is a point-in-time image of the filesystem at a given point. Any ACID database worth the name will roll back the in-flight transaction just like they would if you issued it a `kill -9`.
For other file writes, that's really down to whether or not such interruptions were considered by the writer. You may well have half-written files in your snapshot, with the file contents as they were in between two write() calls. Ideally this will only be in the form of temporary files, prior to their rename() over the data they're replacing.
For everything else - well, you have more than one snapshot backed up, right?
1: https://github.com/Freaky/zfsnapr
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ZFS for Dummies
I make remote snapshot backups with Borg using this: https://github.com/Freaky/zfsnapr
zfsnapr mounts recursive snapshots on a target directory so you can just point whatever backup tool you like at a normal directory tree.
I still use send/recv for local backups - I think it's good to have a mix of strategies.
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BorgBackup, Deduplicating archiver with compression and encryption
This is why I made https://github.com/Freaky/zfsnapr
Instead of working out how to teach my backup tools about snapshots, I just mount them in a subtree and use that as a chroot env.
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Ask HN: Can I see your scripts?
borg-backup.sh, which runs my remote borg backups off a cronjob: https://github.com/Freaky/borg-backup.sh
zfsnapr, a ZFS recursive snapshot mounter - I run borg-backup.sh using this to make consistent backups: https://github.com/Freaky/zfsnapr
mkjail, an automatic minimal FreeBSD chroot environment builder: https://github.com/Freaky/mkjail
run-one, a clone of the Ubuntu scripts of the same name, which provides a slightly friendlier alternative to running commands with flock/lockf: https://github.com/Freaky/run-one
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Correct Backups Require Filesystem Snapshots
I wrote https://github.com/Freaky/zfsnapr a few months ago so I could finally have point-in-time consistent Borg backups with ZFS snapshots, without having the mess of teaching Borg where every .zfs directory was.
It recursively snapshots mounted pools, and recursively mounts snapshots of the mounted datasets into a target ready to point your backup tools at. I do so via a chroot so I didn't need to make any changes to my Borg setup - just to how I run it.
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Snapshot stat changes on access
This is the approach I take with zfssnapr - make a recursive snapshot of pools and then use mountpoint/canmount to recursively mount datasets on a location. Then I can just point borg at it without having to teach it where exactly each .zfs directory is.
- zfsnapr — recursively mount a system snapshot on a given location
What are some alternatives?
zrepl - One-stop ZFS backup & replication solution
BorgBackup - Deduplicating archiver with compression and authenticated encryption.
zfs-auto-snapshot - ZFS Automatic Snapshot Service for Linux
ioztat - ioztat is a storage load analysis tool for OpenZFS. It provides iostat-like statistics at an individual dataset/zvol level.
znapzend - zfs backup with remote capabilities and mbuffer integration.
benchmarks - Benchmarks of different backup tools.
zfs_autobackup - ZFS autobackup is used to periodicly backup ZFS filesystems to other locations. Easy to use and very reliable.
RcloneZFSBackup - Backup ZFS snapshots to cloud storage using RCLone
zfs - OpenZFS on Linux and FreeBSD
borgmatic - Simple, configuration-driven backup software for servers and workstations
UrBackup - UrBackup - Client/Server Open Source Network Backup for Windows, MacOS and Linux
borgtui - A nice TUI for BorgBackup