Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2013 17:38:07 GMT From: Raimundo Santos <raitech@gmail.com> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: ports/175611: zfs-periodic package do not enable cron to hourly snapshots Message-ID: <201301261738.r0QHc7SY002083@red.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <201301261740.r0QHe0Px009595@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 175611 >Category: ports >Synopsis: zfs-periodic package do not enable cron to hourly snapshots >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-ports-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Sat Jan 26 17:40:00 UTC 2013 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Raimundo Santos >Release: 9.1 RELEASE >Organization: NOMADS.USP - CENTER OF INTERACTIVE LIVING STUDIES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL >Environment: FreeBSD www.nomads.usp.br 9.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE #0 r243825: Tue Dec 4 09:23:10 UTC 2012 root@farrell.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 >Description: I am testing zfs-periodic as a method of doing automatic snapshots in FreeBSD ZFS, and was surprised when a response to zfs list -t snapshot returns only the daily and weekly snapshots. The thing that was missing is a line in the /etc/crontab file to call periodic script with hourly argument. Put that and all works perfectly well. >How-To-Repeat: Just install and configure zfs-periodic ports pacakge as needed. >Fix: Put a line automaticaly or advise, in pkg-message, to the user to put a line in /etc/crontab to complete the job of hourly snapshots. >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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