filesystems/zfs-periodic 1.0.20130213 DragonFly

Simple way of maintaining zfs snapshots using the periodic system

System: DragonFly
Repository: DPorts
Maintainer: [email protected] (as in FreeBSD)
Categories: filesystems, sysutils
Package size: 2.3 KiB, 5.3 KiB installed

Description

Scripts that uses the periodic system to create and manage zfs snapshots. Easily configured via /etc/periodic.conf

In the other systems

The newest version among them is 1.0.20130213, as upstream numbers it.

System

Port

Version

Vulnerabilities

Status

Maintainer

Last update

DragonFly

filesystems/zfs-periodic

1.0.20130213 newest

none known

[email protected]

FreeBSD

filesystems/zfs-periodic

1.0.20130213 newest

none known

[email protected]

MidnightBSD

filesystems/zfs-periodic

1.0.20130213_1 newest

no data

[email protected]

HardenedBSD

filesystems/zfs-periodic

1.0.20130213 newest

no data

[email protected]

GhostBSD

filesystems/zfs-periodic

1.0.20130213 newest

no data

[email protected]

Install

Binary package:

pkg install zfs-periodic

From DPorts:

cd /usr/dports/filesystems/zfs-periodic && make install clean

Dependencies

No port depends on this one.

Configuration

No options to configure.

Service scripts: none

Message after installing

In order to enable periodic snapshots you need
to add these lines to your /etc/periodic.conf

hourly_output="root"
hourly_show_success="NO"
hourly_show_info="YES"
hourly_show_badconfig="NO"
hourly_zfs_snapshot_enable="YES"
hourly_zfs_snapshot_pools="tank"
hourly_zfs_snapshot_keep=6
daily_zfs_snapshot_enable="YES"
daily_zfs_snapshot_pools="tank"
daily_zfs_snapshot_keep=7
weekly_zfs_snapshot_enable="YES"
weekly_zfs_snapshot_pools="tank"
weekly_zfs_snapshot_keep=5
monthly_zfs_snapshot_enable="YES"
monthly_zfs_snapshot_pools="tank"
monthly_zfs_snapshot_keep=2

To get hourly snapshots you also need to add
something like this to /etc/crontab:

2       *       *       *       *       root    periodic hourly