PFS snapshot not going to assigned directory

Antonio Huete Jiménez tuxillo at quantumachine.net
Mon Dec 22 02:04:45 PST 2014


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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