[OmniOS-discuss] Auto snapshots?

[Dan Swartzendruber]

> On 04/23/2013 04:56 PM, Dan Swartzendruber wrote:
>>
>> Eric, thanks for the quick reply.  I understand things may be changing
>> on
>> the fly.  My feeling is that ZFS snaps done this way are going to be
>> crash
>> consistent, just like pulling a plug on a physical server.  I realize
>> there is a chance one or more VMs will not like the result, but it is
>> better than the 100% chance I have if I get a borked VM and have no
>> backup
>> :)  I am looking at using Veeam Backup and Replication to do periodic
>> backups (and it supposedly *does* do guest FS quiescing, IIRC).  For the
>> moment, I just want some kind of safety net.  I guess for the moment, I
>> can just put in a cron job to run every hour and manually clean old
>> entries...
>
> Hi Dan,
>
> I'm using Zetaback. Has support for incremental backups, offsite
> storage, per-host retention policies and it's simple as heck:
> http://labs.omniti.com/labs/zetaback
> Works like a charm for me.

thanks, I'll take a look :)