So I have Crashplan running on my OI+Nappit setup for offsite backups. I also have ZFS setup for automatic snaps. Problem is I think crashplan sees these snaps as something to backup, I have not been able to confirm this other than it will get a decent chunk to backup after a snap is taken. Does anyone know what filter I can apply to crashplan to keep it from attempting to back up the snaps? Note I can not see the snaps in my crashplan backup sets.
ZFS Snaps and Crashplan
- Thread starter hagak
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After some more research it appears that under each ZFS folder there is a ".zfs/" path that contains the shares and snaps. This is an odd path though since it is not visible under bash by running ls -al, however cd .zfs takes you to it. That said I wonder if crashplan is seeing this folder, if so that explains the excessive backups and I should be able to make a regex filter to exclude it. Interestingly I do not see this folder in my crashplan backups so still not sure.
By default the following folders are excluded in Solaris like operating systems
You could create a regex expression that includes
in your exclusions. I am not sure if this will wipe out the previous backed up snaps.
Code:
/bin/
/boot/
/etc/
/initrd/
/lib/
/opt/
/sbin/
/usr/
/var/
/srv/
Code:
.*/.ZFS.*