znapzend VS zfs_autobackup

I have rather nice experience with ZnapZend https://www.znapzend.org/

Only issue i've found is the fact there is no official Debian repository and i always do forget to recompile it after upgrading Debian :-D

I really like the configuration system integrated in ZFS set/get...

Hi, I'm using zfs on my home server since years. (Proxmox host). Never had any problems, I'm using https://www.znapzend.org/ for automatic snapshot which are cheap (time and required space) and they get synced with my backup server.

If you need something that’s more for peace of mind than for rigorous backup policy, you could use the ZFS storage driver, and do periodic snapshots of the whole tree, or use some shell scripting to enumerate the volumes you care about and zfs snapshot or zfs send them somewhere safe.

znapzend is a perl application for snapping, sending, and receiving.

The official documentation is overly complicated for this purpose. A simple example config is:

OK question time! I have znapzend configured via znapzendzetup. Now need to set up a matching OpenIndiana service as described here.

I recommend you to get familiar with https://github.com/psy0rz/zfs_autobackup/wiki first and then use the configuration you are happy with in my script.

I have a small home server running Ubuntu Server with a ZFS file system. To back up my files and use snapshots, I am currently using zfs-autobackup, which is easy to set up and works really well for ZFS. However, zfs-autobackup does not provide any information on files or folders that have been created, updated, or deleted from previous backups. While I am not too concerned about newly created or updated files, I would like to know which files have been deleted compared to the previous backup. Ideally, I would like to be able to see which files have been deleted before the backup takes place, so I can recover any unwanted deletions before it's too late.

as described here https://github.com/psy0rz/zfs_autobackup/issues/170

Use ZFS Autobackup https://github.com/psy0rz/zfs_autobackup or ZFS send and receive to create a clone of an existing pool on a new system https://www.thegeekdiary.com/zfs-tutorials-creating-zfs-snapshot-and-clones/

I just went back to sanoid. I have also looked at zfs-autobackup and might give that a try. I've been combining sanoid/syncoid with this script to clean up snapshots

If you want it to work really well in all circumstances, it WILL get complex. I tried to keep the code as readable as i could though. There where many refactors. Check it out: https://github.com/psy0rz/zfs_autobackup

Also have a look at https://github.com/psy0rz/zfs_autobackup .