Use expect_empty_remote_list flag when checking if remote list should be empty or not

[zfs-ubuntu/.git] / zfs-scripts.conf.dist

diff --git a/zfs-scripts.conf.dist b/zfs-scripts.conf.dist
index 40a7e4ba282ee4c827a67cd596542249419e2054..e4f36512bf256eb8a0f3d4392f90f3bcbe5b071e 100644 (file)
--- a/zfs-scripts.conf.dist
+++ b/zfs-scripts.conf.dist
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ mailx=/usr/bin/mailx
 
 # specify the path to the logdir the ZFS scripts should dump their logs to
 logdir="/var/log/zfs"
+[[ ! -d "$logdir" ]] && mkdir "$logdir"
 
 # specify the name of the lockdir used when performing ZFS admin operations
 lockdir="/tmp/zfs-admin-lock"
@@ -31,11 +32,17 @@ ssh="ssh"
 remote=
 
 # specify the name of the local pool to store the $remote's snapshots into
+# multiple pools can be specified by separating with a space
 backup_pool=
 
 # import backup pool before replication and export backup pool after replication
 import_export_backup_pool=0
 
+# expect empty remote list 
+# - set to 1 if backing up any new filesystems for the first time
+# - set to 0 if not backing up new filesystems for the first time (to prevent dropping the entire filesystem if the remote list command fails)
+expect_empty_remote_list=0
+
 # when this variable is set, local filesystems will be destroyed
 # before receiving a full streams into them from the remote source.
 # if it needs to do this, and this option is set to 0, it aborts.
@@ -54,7 +61,8 @@ throttle_enable=0
 throttle_opt="-v -M 10"
 
 # Specify the list of filesystems to replicate from the $remote to the $backup_pool (1 per line)
-# The format of each line should be: pool/filesystem
+# The format of each line should be: pool/filesystem OR dst_pool:src_pool/filesystem
+# NOTE: If dst_pool is not specified, the given pool/filesystem will be replicated to all pools in backup_pool
 filesystems_to_replicate="
 "