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SANOID(8) System Administration Utilities SANOID(8)

sanoid - a policy-driven snapshot management tool for ZFS filesystems.

sanoid [options]
Assumes --cron --verbose if no other arguments (other than configdir) are specified
Options:
Specify a directory to find config file sanoid.conf
Specify a directory to store the zfs snapshot cache
Specify a directory for temporary files such as lock files
Creates snapshots and purges expired snapshots
Prints out additional information during a sanoid run
Simulates creation/deletion of snapshots
Suppresses non-error output
Clears out sanoid's zfs snapshot cache
Reports on zpool "health", in a Nagios compatible format
Reports on zpool capacity, in a Nagios compatible format
Reports on snapshot "health", in a Nagios compatible format
Creates snapshots as specified in sanoid.conf
Purges expired snapshots as specified in sanoid.conf
Purges expired snapshots even if a send/recv is in progress
Prints this helptext
Prints the version number
Prints out a lot of additional information during a sanoid run
October 2021 sanoid version 2.1.0