zfs-auto-snapshot 1.2.2-1 does not make snapshots

[Joseph Yasi]

zfs-auto-snapshot 1.2.2-1 has broken exec logic in cron which causes it to not work at all. Upstream has released 1.2.4 which fixes the broken cron syntax issues. Debian has released it as 1.2.4-1. There are no reverse dependencies on zfs-auto-snapshot.

[Joseph Yasi (joe-yasi)]

I believe this update should have a FeatureFreeze exception. The current version in artful is non-functional due to the broken cron scripts.

[Joseph Yasi (joe-yasi)]

The Debian bugs for the issues with 1.2.2 are here:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=850776
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=874182

1.2.3 and 1.2.4 were bug fix releases that fix this cron issue. With 1.2.2, the hourly, weekly and monthly snapshots do not happen. If a user was relying on them from a previous version of this tool, they could have data loss due to the missing snapshots.

[Joseph Yasi (joe-yasi)]

Is this update going to make artful?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Robert (robert-j-m)]

I just hit this as well after I finally noticed that I've had no backups since 28 Oct when I upgraded to Artful. It means I have only 1 hour of history (4x15 "frequent"s), mostly defeating the point of this package. +1 to pulling down the fix or else reverting to the version in Zesty, which did work.

[Iain Lane (laney)]

(cleaning up ~ubuntu-release bugs)

Sorry for the lack of reply from the release team so far. It looks like this was auto-synced into bionic, so the bug is fixed there.

If someone wants to backport the new release to artful, please feel free do so and see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates - subscribe ubuntu-sponsors once it's ready. If the new version doesn't contain unrelated changes then it might be possible to simply backport and just change the version string. Feel free to come to #ubuntu-motu on freenode for help.

[Joseph Yasi (joe-yasi)]

Most of the changes between 1.2.2 and 1.2.4 are related to fixing this bug.
"make --quiet really quiet" and it's merge are the only things not related.

All of the cron cleanups are for fixing this issue:
https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs-auto-snapshot/commits/upstream/1.2.4

I've been running 1.2.4 on Artful in my PPA for a while. I'd could do the SRU backport, but I won't be able to get to it for at least 2 weeks.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Ubuntu 17.10 (Artful Aardvark) has reached end of life, so this bug will not be fixed for that specific release.