Version of zbackup in this repo is not safe

[tesujimath]

I'm the author of zbackup, which is in use here on 5 production fileservers replicating 100s of TB of data. Rather than implement it in my own repo, seperate from zfs-tools, I decided to contribute it to the zfs-tools repo, mainly because of the close integration with the underlying scripts and library. In hindsight, that may have been a mistake.

I submitted a pull request for an enhancement I made to zbackup in September 2014 in my repo. This was not accepted, but in my view is essential if zbackup is to be used safely in a large-scale environment.

So, for now I recommend that any serious users of zbackup use my original version.

I see another issue (#18) has been raised about zbackup functionality, but the author of this repo is not able to respond meaningfully because he is not the author of zbackup itself.

I am therefore wondering whether zbackup should now be decoupled from the underlying zfs-tools, so that proper maintenance may be performed by the original author, without getting bogged down in inconsequential disagreements (like the location of the lock directory).

What do you think?

[Rudd-O]

Would you like to fork zbackup and maintain it separately? -- Rudd-O http://rudd-o.com/

[tesujimath]

Yes, I think that's best, if you're OK with that. I'm just about to embark on adding a few more features, and I think that would be much more straightforward.

[tesujimath]

Are you interested in making zfs-tools available via pip, for example, so my new zbackup repo can declare a dependency?

[Rudd-O]

I really wish I had the time!  :-(

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[tesujimath]

Ha ha, no problem, I can see you're a bit busy with other things. In the meantime, I have gone ahead with independent development of what I need, here: https://github.com/tesujimath/zfs-tools-zbackup

Thanks for the great foundation I was able to build on.