NAME¶

zfs-snapshot — Creates snapshots with the given names.

SYNOPSIS¶

DESCRIPTION¶

zfs snapshot [-r] [-o property=value]... filesystem@snapname|volume@snapname...

All previous modifications by successful system calls to the file system are part of the snapshots. Snapshots are taken atomically, so that all snapshots correspond to the same moment in time. zfs snap can be used as an alias for zfs snapshot. See the Snapshots section of zfsconcepts(8) for details.

-o property=value

Sets the specified property; see zfs create for details.

-r

Recursively create snapshots of all descendent datasets

SEE ALSO¶

zfs-bookmark(8), zfs-clone(8), zfs-destroy(8), zfs-diff(8), zfs-hold(8), zfs-rename(8), zfs-rollback(8), zfs-send(8)