Multi-machine mirroring choices

[Jeremy Chadwick]

On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 07:10:05PM +0200, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> Wesley Shields wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 07:54:26AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
>>> One of the "annoyances" to ZFS snapshots, however, was that I had to
>>> write my own script to do snapshot rotations (think incremental dump(8)
>>> but using ZFS snapshots).
>>
>> There is a PR[1] to get something like this in the ports tree.  I have
>> no idea how good it is but I hope to get it in the tree soon.
>>
>> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/125340
>
> There is also sysutils/freebsd-snapshot (pkg-descr is out of date, it  
> supports ZFS too).
>
> I found it more convenient to just write my own tiny script.

Thanks for pointing this out -- I had no idea such a port existed!

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