Re: zfs replication tool

On Thu, Sep 22, 2022 at 11:51:30PM -1000, parv/FreeBSD wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 22, 2022 at 10:58 PM David Christensen  wrote:
> ...
> 
> > 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?
> >
> 
> That "-F" option, for "zfs-recv(8)", will remove existing file system
> (on the receiver side). For the option to work, existing snapshots would
> need to be destroyed first.
> 
> That is useful if one wants to re-set up backup file system & snapshots.
> Else, what is even the point of incremental snapshot back ups.

it looks like there is no way to specify a -F on the receive side with
zrepl.. my problem looks like https://github.com/zrepl/zrepl/issues/408
issue.

> 
> 
> - parv
> 
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