ZFS - Send and recv incremental backup
When we have done the full backup below we need to send incremental backups every day or so to get everyday changes.
It is quite similar like below with some few exceptions. We will only send the difference between the originating snapshot (backup) and the new one (backup-incremental).
zfs snapshot -r zroot/usr/jails/jail1@backup-incremental
Then we also need to prep the receiving side so that your normal user can receive the backups.
ssh remotehost zfs send -R -v -i zroot/usr/jails/jail1@backup zroot/usr/jails/jail1@backup-incremental | zfs receive -dvus zpool1/backup
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01:10:13 2.95G zroot/usr/jails/jail1@backup-incremental
01:10:14 2.96G zroot/usr/jails/jail1@backup-incremental
01:10:15 2.97G zroot/usr/jails/jail1@backup-incremental
01:10:16 2.98G zroot/usr/jails/jail1@backup-incremental
01:10:17 2.99G zroot/usr/jails/jail1@backup-incremental
01:10:18 3.00G zroot/usr/jails/jail1@backup-incremental
01:10:19 3.01G zroot/usr/jails/jail1@backup-incremental
01:10:20 3.02G zroot/usr/jails/jail1@backup-incremental
01:10:21 3.05G zroot/usr/jails/jail1@backup-incremental
received 3.05GB stream in 255 seconds (12.3MB/sec)
zfs list -t snapshot
NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT
zpool1 411G 38.3G 350G /Volumes/zpool1
zpool1/backup 61.0G 38.3G 281K /Volumes/zpool1/backup
zpool1/backup/usr 61.0G 38.3G 23K /Volumes/zpool1/backup/usr
zpool1/backup/usr/jails 61.0G 38.3G 274K /Volumes/zpool1/backup/usr/jails
zpool1/backup/usr/jails/jail1@backup 3.29G 38.3G 3.29G /Volumes/zpool1/backup/usr/jails/jail1/.zfs/snapshot/backup
zpool1/backup/usr/jails/jail1@backup-incremental 229M 38.3G 3.05G /Volumes/zpool1/backup/usr/jails/jail1/.zfs/snapshot/backup-incremental