ZFS Backup Tool Part 3

Written by: Robert R. Russell on Thursday, August 6, 2020.

Today’s project is parsing a snapshot into a custom datatype that gives us more accessible options to manipulate snapshots. First, the regular expression strings need to be moved into separate files so I can reference them across other files.

The essential parts of a snapshot are:

To parse a snapshot out of a string.

Below is a function that implements the listed requirements.

/*
ParseSnapshot parses a string into a Snapshot.

It returns nil on error.
*/
func ParseSnapshot(input string) *Snapshot {
	var snapshotOnly, err = regexp.Compile("^" + PoolNameRegex + "@" + ZfsSnapshotNameRegex + "$")
	if err != nil {
		return nil
	}
	if !snapshotOnly.MatchString(input) {
		return nil
	}
	var snapshotPieces []string = snapshotOnly.FindStringSubmatch(input)
	var theSnapshot = Snapshot{}
	theSnapshot.Interval = intervalStringToUInt(snapshotPieces[1])
	var year, month, day, hour, minute int
	year, err = strconv.Atoi(snapshotPieces[2])
	if err != nil {
		return nil
	}
	month, err = strconv.Atoi(snapshotPieces[3])
	if err != nil {
		return nil
	}
	day, err = strconv.Atoi(snapshotPieces[4])
	if err != nil {
		return nil
	}
	hour, err = strconv.Atoi(snapshotPieces[5])
	if err != nil {
		return nil
	}
	minute, err = strconv.Atoi(snapshotPieces[6])
	if err != nil {
		return nil
	}
	theSnapshot.TimeStamp = time.Date(year, time.Month(month), day, hour, minute, 0, 0, time.UTC)
	var splitInput []string = strings.Split(input, "@")
	if len(splitInput) != 2 {
		return nil
	}
	var paths []string = strings.Split(splitInput[0], "/")
	theSnapshot.pool = paths[0]
	if len(paths) > 1 {
		copy(theSnapshot.fsTree, paths[1:])
	}
	return &theSnapshot
}

func intervalStringToUInt(input string) uint64 {
	switch input {
	case "yearly":
		return 0
	case "monthly":
		return 1
	case "weekly":
		return 2
	case "daily":
		return 3
	case "hourly":
		return 4
	}
	return 5
}

Now that I can create a Snapshot structure I need some utility methods for them.

The following code will implement those utility methods.

/*
Path returns a string containing the path of the snapshot
*/
func (s Snapshot) Path() string {
	var temp strings.Builder
	temp.WriteString(s.pool)
	if len(s.fsTree) > 0 {
		for _, v := range s.fsTree {
			temp.WriteString("/" + v)
		}
	}
	return temp.String()
}

/*
Name returns a string containing the full name of snapshot
*/
func (s Snapshot) Name() string {
	var temp strings.Builder
	temp.WriteString("zfs-auto-snap_")
	temp.WriteString(intervalUIntToString(s.Interval) + "-")
	fmt.Fprintf(&temp, "%d-%d-%d-%d%d", s.TimeStamp.Year(), s.TimeStamp.Month(), s.TimeStamp.Day(), s.TimeStamp.Hour(), s.TimeStamp.Minute())
	return temp.String()
}

func intervalUIntToString(x uint64) string {
	switch x {
	case 0:
		return "yearly"
	case 1:
		return "monthly"
	case 2:
		return "weekly"
	case 3:
		return "daily"
	case 4:
		return "hourly"
	}
	return "frequent"
}

/*
String returns a string equal to s.Path() + "@" + s.Name() for Snapshot s
*/
func (s Snapshot) String() string {
	return s.Path() + "@" + s.Name()
}

/*
CompareSnapshotDates returns -2 if x occured before y and would include y in its interval
returns -1 if x occured before y
returns 0 if x and y are the same snapshot
returns +1 if y occured after x
err is non nill if the snapshots do not have the same path
*/
func CompareSnapshotDates(x Snapshot, y Snapshot) (int, error) {
	if x.Path() != y.Path() {
		return 0, errors.New("Can only compare snapshots with the same path")
	}
	if x.Interval == y.Interval {
		if x.TimeStamp.Equal(y.TimeStamp) {
			return 0, nil
		}
		if x.TimeStamp.Before(y.TimeStamp) {
			return -1, nil
		}
		return 1, nil
	}
	if x.Interval < y.Interval { // y is from a more frequent backup interval than x
		var interval time.Time
		switch x.Interval {
		case 0:
			interval = x.TimeStamp.AddDate(-1, 0, 0)
		case 1:
			interval = x.TimeStamp.AddDate(0, -1, 0)
		case 2:
			interval = x.TimeStamp.AddDate(0, 0, -7)
		case 3:
			interval = x.TimeStamp.AddDate(0, 0, -1)
		case 4:
			interval = x.TimeStamp.Add(time.Hour * -1)
		case 5:
			interval = x.TimeStamp.Add(time.Minute * -15)
		}
		if x.TimeStamp.Before(y.TimeStamp) {
			return 1, nil
		}
		if interval.Before(y.TimeStamp) {
			return -2, nil
		}
		return -1, nil
	}
	// y is from a less frequent backup interval than x
	if x.TimeStamp.Before(y.TimeStamp) {
		return -1, nil
	}
	if x.TimeStamp.After(y.TimeStamp) {
		return 1, nil
	}
	return 0, nil
}

You can get the entire source code for the tool below.

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