ZFSBackup

This is a fairly simple python3 program to do one way sends of zfs datasets for backup purposes. It makes a bunch of assumptions that you probably won't like, but I wrote it for my own internal use. It is still very much a work in progress and probably won't evolve to the point where it can be used as a product outside of my environment. There are some tests, there probably should be more. It seems to be mostly functional at this point.

Requirements

• Python (>=3.6)
• ZFS (ZoL >=0.7.0)
• PyYAML

  Features

• Support for local and remote sends
• Incremental sends (Wow!)
• Config file (Amazing!)
• Manual dataset backup
• The ability to be run by cron on some sort of schedule (Be still my beating heart!)
• Multiple backup targets per dataset
• Tunable snapshot deletion on the destination

  Planned Features

• More user tunable parameters
• Support for specific ssh keys (now it just assumes ssh will work)
• Probably More

  Motivation

  I wanted to write my own simple zfs backup program. There are better more complex offerings out there if you have your own need.

  Future

  I know there are plans to update pyzfs so I'll probably use that in the future. I also want to make this more OO.