# This config serves as an example for a local zrepl installation that # backups the entire zpool `system` to `backuppool/zrepl/sink` # # The requirements covered by this setup are described in the zrepl documentation's # quick start section which inlines this example. # # CUSTOMIZATIONS YOU WILL LIKELY WANT TO APPLY: # - adjust the name of the production pool `system` in the `filesystems` filter of jobs `snapjob` and `push_to_drive` # - adjust the name of the backup pool `backuppool` in the `backuppool_sink` job # - adjust the occurences of `myhostname` to the name of the system you are backing up (cannot be easily changed once you start replicating) # - make sure the `zrepl_` prefix is not being used by any other zfs tools you might have installed (it likely isn't) jobs: # this job takes care of snapshot creation + pruning - name: snapjob type: snap filesystems: { "system<": true, } # create snapshots with prefix `zrepl_` every 15 minutes snapshotting: type: periodic interval: 15m prefix: zrepl_ pruning: keep: # fade-out scheme for snapshots starting with `zrepl_` # - keep all created in the last hour # - then destroy snapshots such that we keep 24 each 1 hour apart # - then destroy snapshots such that we keep 14 each 1 day apart # - then destroy all older snapshots - type: grid grid: 1x1h(keep=all) | 24x1h | 14x1d regex: "^zrepl_.*" # keep all snapshots that don't have the `zrepl_` prefix - type: regex negate: true regex: "^zrepl_.*" # This job pushes to the local sink defined in job `backuppool_sink`. # We trigger replication manually from the command line / udev rules using # `zrepl signal wakeup push_to_drive` - type: push name: push_to_drive connect: type: local listener_name: backuppool_sink client_identity: myhostname filesystems: { "system<": true } send: encrypted: true replication: protection: initial: guarantee_resumability # Downgrade protection to guarantee_incremental which uses zfs bookmarks instead of zfs holds. # Thus, when we yank out the backup drive during replication # - we might not be able to resume the interrupted replication step because the partially received `to` snapshot of a `from`->`to` step may be pruned any time # - but in exchange we get back the disk space allocated by `to` when we prune it # - and because we still have the bookmarks created by `guarantee_incremental`, we can still do incremental replication of `from`->`to2` in the future incremental: guarantee_incremental snapshotting: type: manual pruning: # no-op prune rule on sender (keep all snapshots), job `snapshot` takes care of this keep_sender: - type: regex regex: ".*" # retain keep_receiver: # longer retention on the backup drive, we have more space there - type: grid grid: 1x1h(keep=all) | 24x1h | 360x1d regex: "^zrepl_.*" # retain all non-zrepl snapshots on the backup drive - type: regex negate: true regex: "^zrepl_.*" # This job receives from job `push_to_drive` into `backuppool/zrepl/sink/myhostname` - type: sink name: backuppool_sink root_fs: "backuppool/zrepl/sink" serve: type: local listener_name: backuppool_sink