Re: zfs replication tool

On Tue, Sep 20, 2022 at 01:25:03PM +0100, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Sep 2022 14:20:29 +0200
> Julien Cigar <julien@perdition.city> wrote:
> 
> > also the thing I don't like with zrepl is that snapshot management and
> > replication are tightly coupled. It looks like replicating a host "A" to
> > "B" and "C" (classical local and off-site backup) is not possible
> > without dirty hacks and race conditions ...
> 
> 	A -> B -> C should be possible I think - not tried it though. The
> one thing I dislike about zrepl is that it doesn't transfer properties just
> data.

it is possible through a snap job on the sender and multiple pull jobs
from receivers, but it's racy as jobs are run independently (so the snap
job could be pruning a snapshot before or while it has been sent)

as of 0.5.0 it is possible to transfer properties I think

> 
> -- 
> Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>
> 

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