Re: zfs replication tool

On Tue, Sep 20, 2022 at 09:39:37AM -0400, mike tancsa wrote:
> 
> On 9/20/2022 9:23 AM, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote:
> > On Tue, 20 Sep 2022 14:51:54 +0200
> > Julien Cigar <julien@perdition.city> wrote:
> > 
> > > as of 0.5.0 it is possible to transfer properties I think
> > 	Ooh time to RTFM again :)
> 
> Its kind of a messy problem (properties) and has lots of foot shooting
> possibilities.
> 
> https://zrepl.github.io/configuration/sendrecvoptions.html?highlight=properties#job-note-property-replication

I agree, fortunately we have zfs delegations and jailed zfs datasets
which (could) help to mitigate some of those devastating consequences

> 
> In our case, for our bare metal restoration, we have a separate config file
> to do restorations per server/vm where there are "special cases". Thankfully
> there are not many and its all scriptable for restoration.
> 
> For the A --> B -->C when we do are offload from B to C, we pick the
> snapshots we want to send, place a hold on that snapshot and then do the
> send (1.5 day process). Zrepl cries that it cant prune the snapshot. Once
> the B-C process is complete, we remove the holds and zrepl happily deletes
> the snapshots it thinks its supposed to delete.

I see, is it necessary to place holds manually? I thought zrepl already
does this by default

> 
>     ---Mike
> 
> 

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