In my post OpenSolaris Backup Solution with Rsync and ZFS Snapshots I provided a link to a script from Sun – snapadm.pl. I found a bug where if you were using the recursive function then the old snapshots would never be destroyed as they were incorrectly named.
I have updated the snapadm.pl file contained in my post and have also provided a download link here.
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I have recently been forced to learn how to admin an OpenSolaris machine with ZFS filesystems. After doing some reading on ZFS, I realised how using snapshots with an rsync server would make an excellent backup solution.
Using several scripts to control rsync and the snapshots has allowed me to setup a system that has data retention periods applied and only uses the space on disk required to keep the changed files. Cloning a ZFS snapshot from a week ago (or even six months ago) allows you to create a synthetic full backup from the point in time the backup was taken.