ZFS for Dummies

• sanoid

  118 2,882 7.1 Perl

  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.)

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).

• zfs-autosnap

  4 37 4.8 Rust

  Minimal viable ZFS autosnapshot tool

A lot of these suggestions are heavily opinionated. Which is not necessarily bad, but they seem to mess with existing conventions just for the sake of it (why {pool}:{dataset}?).

> Don't make me name [...] snapshots.

You might like this little tool I wrote: https://github.com/rollcat/zfs-autosnap

You put "zfs-autosnap snap" in cron hourly (or however often you want a snapshot), and "zfs-autosnap gc" in cron daily, and it takes care of maintaining a rolling history of snapshots, per the retention policy.

It's not hard writing simple ZFS command wrappers, feel free to take my code and make your own tools.

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• zfs

  719 10,125 9.7 C

  OpenZFS on Linux and FreeBSD

  

Damn good question. I don’t have time to search for duplicates myself right now, but you can look through/ask the mailing list: https://zfsonlinux.topicbox.com/groups/zfs-discuss (looks weird, but this is a legit web front end for the mailing list) and the github issues: https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/issues

• command-limits

  1 0 10.0 Rust

  Build command lines that respect argument size limits

Nice, you reminded me of my own incomplete Rust rewrite of the Ruby ZFS snapshot script I wrote about a decade ago, and this bit of yak shaving that ended up derailing me: https://github.com/Freaky/command-limits

I should pick them back up.

(I snapshot in big chunks with xargs to try to minimise temporal smear - snapshots created in the same `zfs snapshot` command are atomic)

• zfsnapr

  7 21 5.6 Ruby

  Recursive ZFS snapshot mounter

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.

• httm

  98 1,199 9.9 Rust

  Interactive, file-level Time Machine-like tool for ZFS/btrfs/nilfs2 (and even actual Time Machine backups!)

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