Recommended script to generate snapshots that can be sent with bzfs?

[satmandu]

bzfs works great for sending and receiving.

Is there a recommendation for a script that will generate the snapshots automatically?

I'd like to be able to just setup a cronjob to generate the snapshot, followed by bzfs sending the snapshot...

[satmandu]

e.g.,

0 1 * * * script_to_generate_snapshots.sh && bzfs --ssh-program hpnssh data_pool backuphost:backups/data_pool

[whoschek]

Sanoid or a manual 'zfs snapshot -r' works great for snapshotting.

[satmandu]

I suppose that sanoid would be the easiest way to get replication setup, with bzfs being called as part of a sanoid post_snapshot_script.

[whoschek]

As of bzfs-1.10, it's easiest to use the bzfs_jobrunner companion program for this, which is a convenience wrapper around bzfs that simplifies periodic ZFS snapshot creation, replication, and pruning, across source host and multiple destination hosts, using a single shared jobconfig script.