Enhance FreeBSD Sylve to run backups
In my previous post Migrate TrueNAS Core to Sylve I ended with an exercise for the reader to "Configure Samba and ZFS send-receive". Well, I succeeded in adding this and even added some more backup options. All my backup types ZFS send/receive over SSH Time Machine of Apple MacOS on a Samba share Rsync of UFS filesystem ZFS send/receive over SSH I have a couple of FreeBSD machines, ranging from laptops to desktops to Raspberry Pi's. Most of these run ZFS and I just want to send/receive the complete ZFS pool to my backup server. TrueNAS had this feature integrated using zrepl . In Sylve I only found a feature to backup the Sylve server itself, not to backup other hosts to the Sylve server. I didn't want to write a custom script, so I tried some existing ones. I ended up with sysutils/sanoid (pkg install sanoid). This package contains an application syncoid which is very flexible with only command line switches. I now have this in cron on the Sylve server: SYNCO...