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:
- --configdir=DIR
- Specify a directory to find config file sanoid.conf
- --cache-dir=DIR
- Specify a directory to store the zfs snapshot cache
- --run-dir=DIR
- Specify a directory for temporary files such as lock files
- --cron
- Creates snapshots and purges expired snapshots
- --verbose
- Prints out additional information during a sanoid run
- --readonly
- Simulates creation/deletion of snapshots
- --quiet
- Suppresses non-error output
- --force-update
- Clears out sanoid's zfs snapshot cache
- --monitor-health
- Reports on zpool "health", in a Nagios compatible format
- --monitor-capacity
- Reports on zpool capacity, in a Nagios compatible format
- --monitor-snapshots
- Reports on snapshot "health", in a Nagios compatible format
- --take-snapshots
- Creates snapshots as specified in sanoid.conf
- --prune-snapshots
- Purges expired snapshots as specified in sanoid.conf
- --force-prune
- Purges expired snapshots even if a send/recv is in progress
- --help
- Prints this helptext
- --version
- Prints the version number
- --debug
- Prints out a lot of additional information during a sanoid run