Re: zfs replication tool

On Thu, Sep 22, 2022 at 10:58 PM David Christensen  wrote:
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> I wrote homebrew scripts to automate ZFS replication and I saw that
> error message many times in the past.  The solution was to add the '-F'
> option to the 'zfs receive' commands.  Is there a way to do this with
> zrepl?
>

That "-F" option, for "zfs-recv(8)", will remove existing file system
(on the receiver side). For the option to work, existing snapshots would
need to be destroyed first.

That is useful if one wants to re-set up backup file system & snapshots.
Else, what is even the point of incremental snapshot back ups.


- parv

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