Re: zfs replication tool

On Fri, Sep 16, 2022 at 09:37:39AM -0400, mike tancsa wrote:
> On 9/16/2022 9:30 AM, Julien Cigar wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I have the case here where I have to atomically snapshot recursively a
> > dataset with many children (100+) but exclude a dozen of them.
> > 
> > There are dozen of ZFS replication tools and I was wondering which ones
> > supports such case and are recommended?
> > 
> > It looks like "recursivity" in a lot of tools is handled through "zfs
> > snapshot -r somepool" whereas ZFS also supports "zfs snapshot
> > somepool/ds1 somepool/ds2 somepool/ds3/child1" which is also atomic
> 
> sysutils/zrepl works really well for me.
> 
> Check out the filter syntax to see if it meets your requirements
> 
> https://zrepl.github.io/configuration/filter_syntax.html
> 
>     ---Mike

thanks, I used zrepl in the past and I experienced some deadlocks and 
crashes which I why I switched to sanoid (which doesn't support 
recursivity without zfs snapshot -r)

> 
> 
> 

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