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bluesbro1982
@bluesbro1982
gotcha. yeah, i just found the open request on github
Tobias Oetiker
@oetiker
znapzend master has support for backup of encrypted volumes
(so that they stay encrypted at the remote end)
bluesbro1982
@bluesbro1982
I saw that - the raw flag is exactly what I needed
the code is mostly python, right? the last scripting stuff I did was perl waaaay back in the day
Tobias Oetiker
@oetiker
the code is all perl
bluesbro1982
@bluesbro1982
What would budget be to contribute to the project and help implement this?
hmm
I just don't have the time right now, but I'm in a place in my life where I'm no longer surviving on ramen...
Tobias Oetiker
@oetiker
the first step would be to open an issue (or maybe there is already one) and propose a design on how this would work on a logical and configuration level
yes the time issue ... that seems to be everybodies problem these days ... mine too
bluesbro1982
@bluesbro1982
oetiker/znapzend#158
Alright, let me check out the code and see if I can conceptualize how this would work.
for reference this is how zrep does it, but the backend architecture is different I'm sure
http://www.bolthole.com/solaris/zrep/zrep.documentation.html#backupserver
Rivqua
@Rivqua
Hi :)
I have a question I can't figure out the answer to, I've setup znapzend, and it works. I am wondering though, how do I configure the features? like --features=skipIntermediates,compressed ?
Jonathan Duggan
@jduggan69_gitlab
Hey guys - is there any literature anywhere on integrating or somehow monitoring a znapzend environment ? i have an environment of around 30 sans currently using homebrew scripts & sending info to a central api for a webfrontend to quickly overlook. its turned into a huge chore so keen to move to something like zsnapzend but wondering if such a thing exists already for the monitoring side ?
Tobias Oetiker
@oetiker
there is no such document, but basically you can parse syslog output
felixn-dk
@felixn-dk
Hi I get this error when I try to modify and list : zLog must be specified at creation time
stellarpower
@stellarpower
Having the same. Is this because it can't connect to syslogd?
Carsten Härle
@chaerle

What does the znapzend 20.0 error message mean?

cannot send 'xxxxxx': I/O error
ERROR: cannot send snapshots to xxxxx on yyyy
send/receive for data1 failed: Can't call method "message" without a package or object reference at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ZnapZend.<

storkone
@storkone
Hi, in lib/ZnapZend.pm $refreshBackupPlans is called during init. That sub creates (to be replicated) zfs datasets at the destination if they don't exist. However the pre-send-command and post-send-command's (if set and not off) are also executed. I find this a bit misleading because the documentation describes a valid example (bringing a zpool online) but other use cases come to mind, like running some job against the transferred snapshot. But that like the parameter name implies, run that job only before and after zfs send do not run it after "refresh" Yes the environment variable WORKER is appended with "-refresh" to distiguish both cases but that's nowhere documented.
Please let me know whether you want the documentation updated or split the pre/post-send-command in the "refresh" and send versions. Which is a bit cleaner than checking some environment variable for a string.
Tobias Oetiker
@oetiker
if you have an idea on how to make this cleaner without breaking existing implementations ...
otherwise improvements for PR the documentation will be fine
storkone
@storkone
Now a design question. Why does the pre/post-snap-cmd includes the snapshot name in an environment variable for the scripts and the pre/post-send-cmd doesn't?
Now the script doesn't know which snapshot was send. I can think of various (edge) cases where something might have changed between the actual send and executing the script. I've hacked this variable in the various sub's to get it from $createSnapshot via the workers to $sendRecvCleanup. If interested I could create a pull request.
I need post processing of the send snapshot, not a snapshot. Another snapshot might have been created, this one might have been deleted. So just processing the last snapshot won't do it. Processing get's done in [dataset]/.zfs/snapshot/[snapshot name]
@oetiker , unfortunately I don't. But I was hoping that you might see a solution.
Tobias Oetiker
@oetiker
I see no problem in providing additional information via environment variables, so please proved a PR!
Kevin Liu
@pot8to
Hey, is there any support in znapzend for deleting local snapshots while keeping remote ones? I'm worried about disks filling up with old snapshots.
Tobias Oetiker
@oetiker
that is the whole point of znapzend ... you configure exactly howmany snapshots you want to keep ... local and remote
Manuel Oetiker
@moetiker
Every location has his own plan ....
src = fast/home-a
src_plan = 1day=>30minutes,7days=>2hours,30days=>4hours
Kevin Liu
@pot8to
yup, thanks!
Carsten Härle
@chaerle
I try to send an unencrypted hierarchy to an encrypted one. The znapzend daemon fails with an error, that it cannot destroy the transfer root encrypted File system with "zfs receive -F" and terminates. However with --runonce znapzend continues with the sub datasets and transfers it correctly. It there a means to have the daemon work also?
Jim Klimov
@jimklimov
Hey, made a PR and found that all the self-tests are different now with github flows :)
The perl 5.10 support fails to install Mojolicious (needs 5.16+) and this seems to cancel other version builds.

https://github.com/oetiker/znapzend/pull/492/checks?check_run_id=865205219

Successfully installed IO-Socket-IP-0.39
! Installing the dependencies failed: Your Perl (5.010001) is not in the range '5.016'
! Bailing out the installation for Mojolicious-8.56.
! Installing the dependencies failed: Module 'Mojolicious' is not installed
! Bailing out the installation for Mojo-IOLoop-ForkCall-0.20.
! Installing the dependencies failed: Module 'Mojo::IOLoop::ForkCall' is not installed, Module 'Mojolicious' is not installed
! Bailing out the installation for /home/runner/work/znapzend/znapzend/.
Installing modules failed
21 distributions installed
Makefile:426: recipe for target 'cpanfile-5.10.1.snapshot' failed

Jim Klimov
@jimklimov
UPDATE: Hopefully fixed as part of my PR https://github.com/oetiker/znapzend/pull/492/ :)
Jim Klimov
@jimklimov
Wasn't in this channel for a while... I saw discussion above about holds or bookmarks on datasets; my take on this was that we could also portably use dataset properties (like marking certain dataset as being the last known common point of this source and that destination) and so avoid autoremoval on either side
Jim Klimov
@jimklimov

Docker image tests fail in another PR:

ERROR: unsatisfiable constraints:
perl-5.30.3-r0:
breaks: world[perl=5.30.1-r0]
satisfies: autoconf-2.69-r2[perl]
automake-1.16.1-r0[perl]

maybe some new alpine release is being rolled out and this got fetching in-between?..
Jim Klimov
@jimklimov

@Rivqua > I have a question I can't figure out the answer to, I've setup znapzend, and it works. I am wondering though, how do I configure the features? like --features=skipIntermediates,compressed ?

This usually happens on the command line, either for the standalone CLI tool like znapzend --runonce=pool/export --features=... or similarly for the service definition. Now in the multi-distro world, the specifics of passing your custom CLI arguments to the service (systemd? SMF? init-script?..) would differ, but the idea remains.

Jim Klimov
@jimklimov
@oetiker : I'm getting lost in trying to cheat around Test::More and family (for where daemonized mode is tested)
whatever I try, there are some modes of invocation that succeed and some that fail, no silver bullet yet :(
Tobias Oetiker
@oetiker
keep fighting :)
David Česal
@Dacesilian
Hello, when I type "znapzendzetup list", it says only "zLog must be specified at creation time!". How can I fix this, please?
Tobias Oetiker
@oetiker
this is fixed in master
David Česal
@Dacesilian

@oetiker Can you please write more detailed tutorial how to build it?

git clone https://github.com/oetiker/znapzend.git znapzend
cd znapzend/
autoconf
aclocal
./configure --prefix=/opt/znapzend

Can't open perl script "/root/znapzend/thirdparty/carton/bin/carton": No such file or directory

David Česal
@Dacesilian
In Debian
apt install carton
make -j4
Tobias Oetiker
@oetiker
hmmm run ./bootstrap
then configure make