RFE - FreeBSD Port: zfs-snapshot-mgmt-20090201_2

[Karli Sjöberg]

Hi!

I am a storage-technician working at the Swedish University of Agriculture and we are using zfs-snapshot-mgmt to create scheduled snapshots, but are failing on our disaster-recovery machine because of:

/usr/local/bin/zfs-snapshot-mgmt:130:in `join': can't convert nil into String (TypeError)
from /usr/local/bin/zfs-snapshot-mgmt:130:in `snapshots'
from /usr/local/bin/zfs-snapshot-mgmt:137:in `snapshots_to_remove'
from /usr/local/bin/zfs-snapshot-mgmt:145:in `remove_snapshots'
from /usr/local/bin/zfs-snapshot-mgmt:213
from /usr/local/bin/zfs-snapshot-mgmt:210:in `each'
from /usr/local/bin/zfs-snapshot-mgmt:210

Now, since this is a disaster-recovery unit, I would rather not have to have all filesystems mounted for the script to function as we have many servers with many file systems backing up towards this unit, which would result in quite alot of mounts that are completely unnecessary to the backup server itself. I also consider it a potential security risk having all these file systems, from all of these different machines mounted in the same place(server). I mean, if someone would like to steal as much valuable data as possible, why crack hundreds of servers and steal it piece by piece when you could just crack one and have it all, right? That doesn´t really make sense because if someone were to crack the backup server they could just mount all filesystems themselves, but only if they knew they were there. But also having them mounted feels like just handing it to them.

Unfortunately I know nothing about programming so I can´t be of any help, besides testing patches, but do you think this can be done? Change the script so that it doesn´t require the file systems to be mounted for it to be able to take snapshots?


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Karli Sjöberg
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Box 7079 (Visiting Address Kronåsvägen 8)
S-750 07 Uppsala, Sweden
Phone:  +46-(0)18-67 15 66
karli.sjoberg at slu.se<mailto:karli.sjoberg at adm.slu.se>