Hi,
At the moment I have a script that do differential backup ....
I keep 30 days worth of snapshot on the server but also send all dailly snapshot offsite..
When I run
The whole idea is that if production server goes down, I can take the backup server to the DC and swap them over with minimal downtime..
However, things like
,
,
SO question:
1. How can I exclude directory from snapshot
2. Should I not try to exclude them?
Thank you
At the moment I have a script that do differential backup ....
I keep 30 days worth of snapshot on the server but also send all dailly snapshot offsite..
When I run
zfs snapshot -r zroot@-2017-03-29
I get a copy of everything
Code:
NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT
zroot@-2017-03-29 0 - 192K -
zroot/ROOT@-2017-03-29 0 - 192K -
zroot/ROOT/default@-2017-03-29 175M - 992M -
zroot/tmp@-2017-03-29 176K - 288K -
zroot/usr@-2017-03-29 0 - 192K -
zroot/usr/home@-2017-03-29 160K - 376K -
zroot/usr/jails@-2017-03-29 735K - 4.77G -
zroot/usr/jails/mariadb@-2017-03-29 400K - 120M -
zroot/usr/jails/mariadb/var@-2017-03-29 759K - 26.7M -
zroot/usr/jails/mariadb/var/db@-2017-03-29 1.93M - 31.4M -
zroot/usr/jails/mariadb/var/db/mysql@-2017-03-29 408K - 402M -
zroot/usr/jails/mariadb/var/db/mysql-innodb@-2017-03-29 5.26M - 76.8M -
zroot/usr/jails/mariadb/var/db/mysql-innodb-logs@-2017-03-29 3.56M - 96.2M -
zroot/usr/jails/nginx@-2017-03-29 3.11M - 53.3M -
zroot/usr/jails/ns1@-2017-03-29 2.79M - 88.9M -
zroot/usr/jails/postfixserver@-2017-03-29 137M - 13.8G -
zroot/usr/jails/wordpress_tpl@-2017-03-29 7.03M - 1.31G -
zroot/usr/ports@-2017-03-29 197M - 1.31G -
zroot/usr/src@-2017-03-29 0 - 957M -
zroot/var@-2017-03-29 0 - 192K -
zroot/var/audit@-2017-03-29 0 - 192K -
zroot/var/crash@-2017-03-29 0 - 192K -
zroot/var/log@-2017-03-29 655K - 855K -
zroot/var/mail@-2017-03-29 160K - 400K -
zroot/var/tmp@-2017-03-29 128K - 192K -
However, things like
zroot/usr/ports
,
zroot/usr/src
,
zroot/var/tmp
are using a lot of disk space over the 30 day period and they are not really needed or restore service...SO question:
1. How can I exclude directory from snapshot
2. Should I not try to exclude them?
Thank you