Re: zfs replication tool

Reply: Julien Cigar : "Re: zfs replication tool"
In reply to: Julien Cigar : "zfs replication tool"
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From: mike tancsa <mike_at_sentex.net>
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2022 13:37:39 UTC

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