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zrepl
- Zrepl – ZFS replication
- zrepl: A one-stop, integrated solution for ZFS replication
- PVE Host disk upgrade
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Void Linux and root-on-ZFS question
Lastly there is zrepl. This is an automatic snapshot creation, pruning and replication daemon. It lets you automate the creation of ZFS snapshots at specific intervals, apply a retention policy to them, and replicate them out to a remote system with ZFS, like a NAS with TrueNAS on it.
- Container Updating Strategies
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How do you all prepare for a disaster recovery of your nextcloud instance?
I run it in a FreeBSD jail and take frequent ZFS snapshots using zrepl. I’ve had to restore after failed updates and it worked flawlessly.
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Recommend ZFS automation scripts for off-server backups?
As others have noted, I use syncoid but zrepl is an alternative that could be considered.
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Imagine You're a Goofball: Dynamic Preventative ZFS Snapshots
I’m going to throw out Zrepl again because it’s amazing: https://zrepl.github.io/
- Using ZFS backup drive for rsync manually
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Question about best way to do zfs replication to a friends server
Current idea: We offer some form of container each other, where we have that zvol mounted somewhere for the replication use. This would mean that I could create an "inside zfs" where I create a filebased zpool. How is performance on a filebased zpool? (Although it is technically not so important that it performs critically, just trying to find the - or one of - "best" ways). Then we would offer each an ssh endpoint into that container (It doesn't have to be ssh, but it is so far convenient to setup and resilient to be open to the public). And my current plan is to use zrepl (https://zrepl.github.io/) to organise replication from my home server to this "inside" zpool.
zfsbootmenu
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Bash Debugging
We use a couple nice home-grown functions in ZFSBootMenu to help debug things. We have a zdebug logging function that's peppered liberally throughout the code base - https://github.com/zbm-dev/zfsbootmenu/blob/master/zfsbootme...
Hitting ctrl-t on our main menu will, when booting with debug logging enabled, show a screen like this: https://imgur.com/Ge75zkP
We also have a flamegraph profiling mechanism that can be enabled with https://github.com/zbm-dev/zfsbootmenu/blob/master/zfsbootme... . That will dump data to a serial port, which when re-assembled, can be used to produce a graph like https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zbm-dev/zfsbootmenu/master...
Bash is suprisingly flexible.
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Pure Bash Bible
A lot of what's in the Pure Bash Bible is horrifically slow. Many of those things are substantially faster, even when paying the cost of starting a new process, when you use an external and commonly available tool. I wrote a bash performance profiler that outputs data in a format that flamegraph.pl recognizes - it really helped identify where we could improve the performance of ZFSBootMenu.
https://github.com/zbm-dev/zfsbootmenu/releases/tag/v1.12.0
Don't fall in the trap of thinking things have to be written entirely in bash; it's okay to use other tools to help fill in the gaps.
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Some preinstalled options/defaults suggestion
If instead of "opensuse" you're asking for bootloader as grub can't boot from zfs, then, like i metnioned, i don't use grub2, i uninstalled it, instead i'm using https://github.com/zbm-dev/zfsbootmenu
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ZFSBootMenu how to increase font resolution?
I thought the following was supposed to fix this issue: https://github.com/zbm-dev/zfsbootmenu/commit/84da18e64ebcc0c483e7b2c7d3972f7d91784e63
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How do I configure the refind.conf and refind_linux.conf (and or config.yaml (for ZFSBootMenu)) files properly when installing Arch Linux with ZFS Native Encryption?
All release assets, including EFI executables and kernel/initramfs pairs, are signed with signify, which provides a simple method for verifying that the contents of the file are as this project intended. Once you've installed signify (that's left as an exercise, although Void Linux provides the signify package for this purpose), just download the desired assets from the ZFSBootMenu release page, download the file sha256.sig alongside it, and run:
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How to keep Ubuntu from creating a dozen /var subdirectories?
I think the consensus is that you probably shouldn't be installing a ZFS on root using the native installer anymore. They aren't really maintaining the packages that make that work. Instead the suggestion is to go the zfsbootmenu route of installing.
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Cloned my root dataset and now it won't boot because NTP daemon can't reach time servers
Glad to hear that everything is working for you! I've opened a PR that adds a warning about this condition - it should likely make it into 2.2.0.
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Ubuntu 23.04 Desktop's New Installer Set To Ship Without OpenZFS Install Support
You can install following instructions at https://openzfs.github.io/openzfs-docs/Getting%20Started/Debian/Debian%20Bullseye%20Root%20on%20ZFS.html which I've automated with https://github.com/HankB/Linux_ZFS_Root/tree/master/Debian. For scripting, you should also look at https://github.com/zbm-dev/zfsbootmenu. I'd probably go that way if I were starting from scratch.
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Void Linux and root-on-ZFS question
ZBM provides an amazingly useful script in it's wiki here. This runs when a new kernel is updated by xbps and it snapshots your system before the kernel is installed. This creates a boot environment, and via the magic of ZFS boot environments, allows you to rollback any kernel update to a known, working configuration.
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When root on ZFS breaks on Arch Linux
* https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E86824_01/html/E54764/beadm-1m.ht...
> A ZFS boot environment is a bootable clone of the datasets needed to boot the operating system. Creating a BE before performing an upgrade provides a low-cost safeguard: if there is a problem with the update, the system can be rebooted back to the point in time before the upgrade.
* https://klarasystems.com/articles/managing-boot-environments...
Or perhaps:
> In essence, ZFSBootMenu is a small, self-contained Linux system that knows how to find other Linux kernels and initramfs images within ZFS filesystems. When a suitable kernel and initramfs are identified (either through an automatic process or direct user selection), ZFSBootMenu launches that kernel using the kexec command.
* https://github.com/zbm-dev/zfsbootmenu
What are some alternatives?
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.)
root-on-zfs-systemdboot - Dual-boot Root-on-ZFS config for Debian w/ systemd-boot
zfs_autobackup - ZFS autobackup is used to periodicly backup ZFS filesystems to other locations. Easy to use and very reliable.
archiso-zfs - Easily load ZFS kernel module on any Archiso.
zfs - OpenZFS on Linux and FreeBSD
ramroot - Load root file system to ram during boot.
lxd-snapper - LXD snapshots, automated
dracut - dracut the event driven initramfs infrastructure
zfswatcher - ZFS pool monitoring and notification daemon
zectl - ZFS Boot Environment manager for Linux
zfsbackup-go - Backup ZFS snapshots to cloud storage such as Google, Amazon, Azure, etc. Built with the enterprise in mind.
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