zfs snapshot

I chose Auto (ZFS) Guided Root-on-ZFS during installation for a laptop with a single disk. I chose stripe since I have only one disk. I selected to encrypt the boot environments with geli. The installer created the default layout and datasets under zroot. My question is, I want to keep...

Which method (or utility set) would be best for making EVERYDAY ZFS snapshots of server’s current FreeBSD system (whole system installed but NOT THE WHOLE DRIVE) to internal USB 2.0 pen-drive? Need to NOTE: this USB 2.0 pen-drive are FORMATTED as bootable (by periodically downloading from...

I use ZFS snapshots and mirroring (both on a harddrive that is permanently connected and on harddrives that aren't always connected) as a means of keeping backups of my data. Using the snapshots, I can go back in time if I accidentally delete files or something else happened to my data on the...

Hi y’all, I am trying to wrap my head around the zfs redact feature (com.delphix:redaction_bookmarks and com.delphix:redacted_datasets zpool-features). I have a bit of troubles following the example in zfs-send, § Redaction. Let me quote the text followed by my interpretation...

Hi FreeBSD Gurus! Please suggest me tool (ready-to-use package with webGUI for tuning and operation, would be perfect) to automate/schedule backup (whole ZFS drive or part of it) on the fly to cloud drive like AWS. Ability to making backup on external mass storage (USB/SATA/FC-connected) would...

Hi, on ZoL I removed a slog drive during heavy load (nfs). No problems. Few hours ago, I removed a slog from a freebsd system, I suffered destruction of the pool and stunned system: during the process of receiving an snapshot I removed the slog device of the main pool. No zfs command could be...

Greetings all, let us say that a snapshot of a data-set has been created, e.g. zfs snapshot tank/data-set@today . The snapshot has then been transferred to a different server, e.g., /storage/backup/data-set@today. With zfs rollback storage/backup/data-set@today, the resulting mount-point will...

Hey Guys! :) Whats the best / proper way to backup a zroot pool to antoher pool / drive? My setup: 2x 250GBs SSDs (zroot | mirrored) 1x 500GB HDD (backup drive) My goal: Backup the entire zroot pool to the backup drive in a limited dataset (250GB) and regularly do automatic snapshots...

As far as I understand it zfs send | zfs receive works in the same manner as snapshots, that is storing the differences from the origin dataset in the snapshot (or in this case as a browsable dataset). So if I completely remove the disk from the pool I'm zfs sending from, will the disk pool I...