'zfs' Category

• Recent home project: ZFS NAS server

  July 2, 2007

  I apologize for not posting for the last week, it was a very hectic week for myself because of a certain request for a Solaris 9 machine with tape that took the greater part of a week to get working properly. All I have to say about that is that I much prefer Solaris 10 […]

  posted in hardware, solaris, zfs by Lee

• Submission: Ralf’s updated zfs backup script (with tutorial!)

  June 20, 2007

  The following comes to you from Ralf Ramge, who has graciously allowed me to post his script and all the instructions below: “I have a small update. I’ve made the number of backups of each filesystem easier to handle by replacing the hardcoded number with a variable. I also added some comments so everybody should […]

  posted in backup, bash, script, solaris, sun, tutorials, zfs by Lee

• Frustrating: Kernel panics

  June 8, 2007

  Alright, so for the last 3 days or so, my main Solaris machine has been going crazy and kernel panicing about once every day or so, which is extremely annoying because every time it panics the machine reboots (and this machine has 3 zones that are in current use, so I get 3 calls about […]

  posted in clariion, crash, geekery, panic, software, solaris, zfs by Lee

• Submission: local/remote zfs snapshot script

  June 6, 2007

  Here’s a nifty little submission from Ralf Ramge. It will do a ZFS snapshot backup to a local directory, a remote machine and also clone and promote the filesystem on the remote machine. It keeps the last 7 backups around. Take a look: #!/bin/bash # backup_zfssnap.sh, (c) 2007 ralf [dot] ramge [at] webde [dot] de […]

  posted in backup, bash, geekery, script, solaris, sun, zfs by Lee

• Not-as-simple perl script for ZFS snapshot auditing

  June 5, 2007

  Hi everyone, I’m back again with another perl script to hopefully be useful to a few of you. Firstly, the script: http://lee.hinmanphoto.com/files/zdiff.txt (formatting long scripts in wordpress’ crazy editor is a very long and arduous process, thus I’m just linking to the script in this case, if anyone knows of a better place to stick […]

  posted in geekery, perl, security, software, solaris, sun, work, zfs by Lee

• Super-simple perl script for zfs snapshots

  June 1, 2007

  Here’s a simple script for creating daily zfs snapshots that get rotated every week (so you always have one for Mon, Tues, Wed, etc) #!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; my $zfsname = shift || die “Need a filesystem name\n”; my $day = `date`; $day =~ s/(Sun|Mon|Tue|Wed|Thu|Fri|Sat)[\S\s]+/$1/gi; my $snapname = “$zfsname\@$day”; my $exist = system(“zfs list […]

  posted in geekery, perl, solaris, sun, zfs by Lee