ZFS backup Q: send/recv and mountpoint property
Gary Palmer
gpalmer at freebsd.org
Fri Aug 10 14:55:22 UTC 2018
On Fri, Aug 10, 2018 at 05:52:03PM +0300, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Aug 2018, Gary Palmer wrote:
>
> > > > On my backup server I have two pools, zfsroot and data. I think I set
> > > > things up, and then exported data so that it's not auto-imported at boot.
> > > > I then put this in /etc/rc.local
> > > >
> > > > zpool import -N -R /backups data
> > > >
> > > > It lets the pool import filesystems with paths like / or /home
> > > > without over-writing the paths on the local system.
> > >
> > > that would fit for "normal" case, but does not survive sudden reboot ;-)
> > >
> > > I'm switching to zxfer for now; not ideal, but fair and usable enough
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I haven't tested reboot during sync, but I'm not sure why a sudden
> > reboot would cause issues - the -R should move mounts outside
> > critical areas. Could you elaborate please?
>
> yes, that would be exactly the case I'm referring: reboot when your data pool
> is *not* exported
Hi Dmitry,
I don't think that's a problem. I don't export the pool before rebooting,
I just shut down the box and boot it the next time I need to do a backup
The -R flag prevents the pool from being written to the cache file which
should stop import on boot. Note that I'm running FreebSD 10.4-p<whatever>
currently. Need to upgrade to 11.2 and see if that still works.
Regards,
Gary
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