ZFS Backup Utilities
This little project contains a set of backup utilities designed to work with ZFS's unique abilities (particularly snapshotting, and send/receive). It will be completely useless if you don't have ZFS. With a proper config file, it can be used to regularly automate the following backup tasks:
- snapshots for select ZFS filesystems (and their descendants)
- deleting old snapshots
- rsync-ing non-ZFS filesystems (e.g., remote servers) to a ZFS filesystem, prior to snapshots
- transmission of snapshots to a remote ZFS server
zebu operates in several pre-defined phases:
- snapshot (may include an rsync to pull data, if needed)
- transmission
- cleanup
For more detailed information, please consult the man page.