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ZFS Automatic Snapshot Service for Linux

8 mentions on Hacker News by 7 people: 1 story, 7 comments · first 2015-01-03 · latest 2023-12-09

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  1. …use Veeam Backup[4]. [1]: https://restic.net/ [2]: https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box [3]: https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs-auto-snapshot [4]: https://rclone.org/ [5]: https://www.veeam.com/virtual-machine-backup-solution-free.h..…
    comment by sandreas · 2023-12-09 · in Ask HN: How do you do personal backups in 2023? (Google and Dropbox issues)
  2. …I use it on my proxmox server[2] to auto manage snapshots incl throwing away old ones. [1]: https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs-auto-snapshot [2]: https://pilabor.com/series/proxmox/restore-virtual-machine-v...
    comment by sandreas · 2023-08-23 · in I only lost 10 minutes of data, thanks to ZFS
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    ZFS Automatic Snapshot Service for Linux
    story by tosh · 2022-11-21 · 0 comments
  4. Not every operation. It's manual but easily automated. https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs-auto-snapshot
    comment by Mindless2112 · 2022-09-18 · in $ rm Important.txt (uh oh)
  5. I'm using this, but packaged for Arch Linux: https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs-auto-snapshot
    comment by Youden · 2018-12-29 · in Ask HN: How do you store photos and videos?
  6. …of the ARC as kernel boot parameters (`zfs.zfs_arc_max=1073741824 zfs.zfs_arc_min=536870912`). [1] https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs-auto-snapshot [2] The coolest feature is the virtual auto mount where you can access the snapshots via the…
    comment by Perseids · 2017-07-12 · in ZFS Is the Best Filesystem For Now
  7. …standard operating system tools. I'd assume btrfs is comparable, but haven't tried it myself. [1]: https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs-auto-snapshot [2]: see https://github.com/adaugherity/zfs-backup for example [3]: currently in my local…
    comment by mhw · 2015-03-16 · in Best Linux server backup system?
  8. …to rollback a ZFS dataset easily. Even though the OpenZFS team doesn't have Time Slider, we do have https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs-auto-snapshot which mimics its behavior. It set this up on all of my storage servers with the following…
    comment by atoponce · 2015-01-03 · in ZFS vs. Hammer