Re: zfs replication tool

On Fri, Sep 23, 2022 at 01:57:54AM -0700, David Christensen wrote:
> On 9/23/22 01:03, Julien Cigar wrote:
> 
> > I'm still getting replication errors with zrepl on my test installation,
> > see https://github.com/zrepl/zrepl/issues/631 for details. The initial
> > transfer works, but after that I'm getting weird "cannot receive
> > incremental stream: destination ..." messages, despite all snapshots
> > have been well preserved on both side
> 
> 
> Does zrepl script the zfs(8) command or does zrepl make ZFS API calls?

I *think* raw zfs(8) is used, it's written in Go

> 
> 
> Does zrepl have xtrace, verbose, debug, etc., options?
> 

yes, but I haven't found an explanation why some snapshots aren't
transferred

> 
> I wrote homebrew scripts to automate ZFS replication and I saw that error
> message many times in the past.  The solution was to add the '-F' option to
> the 'zfs receive' commands.  Is there a way to do this with zrepl?
> 

I'm not sure, and even if there was the possibility I'd like to
understand why it is needed as all snapshots are there. Rollback to the
most recent snapshot shouldn't be necessary in this case..

> 
> David
> 

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