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ZFS snapshots

zfs list -t snapshot

get space used by snapshots

zfs list -o space

destroy snapshots

Destroy all snapshots contains 2022:

zfs list -H -t snapshot -o name | grep 2022 | xargs -n1 zfs destroy

Tools

zfs-auto-snapshot

Automatically create, rotate, and destroy periodic ZFS snapshots.

Exclude from snapshot:

zfs set com.sun:auto-snapshot=false rpool/BACKUP
zfs set com.sun:auto-snapshot=false rpool/var/tmp
zfs set com.sun:auto-snapshot=false rpool/var/log
sudo apt-get install zfs-auto-snapshot

pyznap

pyznap

zsnapd

ZFS Snapshot Daemon

Advanced. Can send snapshot to another machine.

zfsnap

zfsnap

GUIs

snapshot-explorer

https://github.com/niziak/snapshot-explorer

snapper

It is snapshot GUI for BTRFS. But there is a experimental zfs branch to support zfs.

https://github.com/openSUSE/snapper

zgui

https://gitlab.com/beteras/zgui

sudo apt-get install golang-go libzfslinux-dev
 
 
go get gitlab.com/beteras/zgui