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Job Types in Detail

Job Type push

Parameter	Comment
type	= push
name	unique name of the job
connect	connect specification
filesystems	filter specification for filesystems to be snapshotted and pushed to the sink
snapshotting	snapshotting specification
pruning	pruning specification

Example config: config/samples/push.yml

Job Type sink

Parameter	Comment
type	= sink
name	unique name of the job
serve	serve specification
root_fs	ZFS filesystems are received to $root_fs/$client_identity/$source_path

Example config: config/samples/sink.yml

Job Type pull

Parameter	Comment
type	= pull
name	unique name of the job
connect	connect specification
root_fs	ZFS filesystems are received to $root_fs/$source_path
interval	Interval at which to pull from the source job (e.g. 10m). manual disables periodic pulling, replication then only happens on wakeup.
pruning	pruning specification

Example config: config/samples/pull.yml

Job Type source

Parameter	Comment
type	= source
name	unique name of the job
serve	serve specification
filesystems	filter specification for filesystems to be snapshotted and exposed to connecting clients
snapshotting	snapshotting specification

Example config: config/samples/source.yml

Local replication

If you have the need for local replication (most likely between two local storage pools), you can use the local transport type to connect a local push job to a local sink job.

Example config: config/samples/local.yml.

Job Type snap (snapshot & prune only)

Job type that only takes snapshots and performs pruning on the local machine.

Parameter	Comment
type	= snap
name	unique name of the job
filesystems	filter specification for filesystems to be snapshotted
snapshotting	snapshotting specification
pruning	pruning specification

Example config: config/samples/snap.yml