You can rename snapshots but they must be renamed within the same pool and dataset from which they were created. For example:
# zfs rename tank/home/cindys@083006 tank/home/cindys@today |
In addition, the following shortcut syntax provides equivalent snapshot renaming syntax as the example above.
# zfs rename tank/home/cindys@083006 today |
The following snapshot rename operation is not supported because the target pool and file system name are different from the pool and file system where the snapshot was created.
# zfs rename tank/home/cindys@today pool/home/cindys@saturday cannot rename to 'pool/home/cindys@today': snapshots must be part of same dataset |
You can recursively rename snapshots with the zfs rename -r command. For example:
# zfs list NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT users 270K 16.5G 22K /users users/home 76K 16.5G 22K /users/home users/home@yesterday 0 - 22K - users/home/markm 18K 16.5G 18K /users/home/markm users/home/markm@yesterday 0 - 18K - users/home/marks 18K 16.5G 18K /users/home/marks users/home/marks@yesterday 0 - 18K - users/home/neil 18K 16.5G 18K /users/home/neil users/home/neil@yesterday 0 - 18K - # zfs rename -r users/home@yesterday @2daysago # zfs list -r users/home NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT users/home 76K 16.5G 22K /users/home users/home@2daysago 0 - 22K - users/home/markm 18K 16.5G 18K /users/home/markm users/home/markm@2daysago 0 - 18K - users/home/marks 18K 16.5G 18K /users/home/marks users/home/marks@2daysago 0 - 18K - users/home/neil 18K 16.5G 18K /users/home/neil users/home/neil@2daysago 0 - 18K - |