PFS snapshot not going to assigned directory

[Rohit Menon]

Hello Antonio,

Thanks on clearing that out.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you and all the guys in the team
:)

On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 9:45 PM, Antonio Huete Jiménez <
tuxillo at quantumachine.net> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've been taking a look at the manpage and it does specify the snapshots
> go to the directory specified only upon 'hammer cleanup'. But there is no
> mention to the snapshot dir for normal 'hammer snap' calls.
> If we force the snapshots' symlinks to always go to the directory
> specified then somebody could complain that they are not created in the
> current directory and instead they go to the snapshots directory.
>
> In any case this is the expected behavior in the current implementation
> but *I* think it would be better if they went to the snapshots directory
> unless another directory is specified, but for this we'd have to add the
> code to handle it.
>
> Cheers,
> Antonio Huete
>
>
>
> Quoting Antonio Huete Jiménez <tuxillo at quantumachine.net>:
>
>  Hi Rohit,
>>
>> I'll have a look at this later today.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Antonio Huete
>>
>> Quoting Rohit Menon <rohit.forum33 at gmail.com>:
>>
>>  Hi,
>>>
>>> I have currently configured a PFS with status as given below.
>>>
>>> /Backup3/vms-lxc    PFS #1 {
>>>    sync-beg-tid=0x0000000000000001
>>>    sync-end-tid=0x0000000121e5d400
>>>    shared-uuid=3df3d26e-8552-11e4-8192-4587fc6b58f4
>>>    unique-uuid=3df3d298-8552-11e4-8192-4587fc6b58f4
>>>    label=""
>>>    *snapshots="/Backup4/pfs-snapshots/vms-lxc"*
>>>    prune-min=00:00:00
>>>    operating as a MASTER
>>> }
>>>
>>> As can be seen the the snapshot directory is configured to another disk.
>>> However the snapshots are being taken in the pfs itself.
>>>
>>> dfly-bkpsrv2# pwd
>>> /Backup3/pfs/@@-1:00001
>>>
>>> ls
>>>
>>>
>>> lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  37 Dec 18 14:30 snap-20141218-1430 ->
>>> /Backup3/vms-lxc/@@0x0000000119445e90
>>> lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  37 Dec 19 14:30 snap-20141219-1430 ->
>>> /Backup3/vms-lxc/@@0x0000000000000000
>>> drwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   0 Dec 17 01:13 vms1
>>> drwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   0 Dec 17 01:13 vms2
>>> drwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   0 Dec 17 01:13 vms3
>>> drwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   0 Dec 18 16:59 vms4
>>> drwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   0 Dec 17 01:13 vms5
>>> drwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   0 Dec 17 01:13 vms6
>>> drwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   0 Dec 17 01:13 vms7
>>> drwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   0 Dec 17 01:13 vms8
>>>
>>>
>>> As a side note the snapshots are taken via *crontab *instead of using the
>>> default settings.
>>>
>>>
>>> 30 14 * * * hammer snap /Backup3/vms-lxc "rsync"
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I can see that there is hammer snapshot where I can specify the
>>> behaviour,
>>> however shouldn't the above command take a backup to
>>>
>>>
>>> */Backup4/pfs-snapshots/vms-lxc*
>>>
>>
>
>
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