[OmniOS-discuss] Auto snapshots?

[Sašo Kiselkov]

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.

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Saso