Snapshots

Introduction

Snapshots are read only copies of a filesystem at a given point of time. For more information on snapshots and how they work, see the concepts page. Projects snapshots consist of snapshots of every filesystem and LUN in the project, all with identical names. Shares can delete the snapshots individually, and creating a snapshot with the same name as a project snapshot, while supported, can result in undefined behavior as the snapshot will be considered part of the project snapshot with the same name.

Snapshot Properites

.zfs/snapshot visible

The behavior of this property is identical to its behavior at the share level.

BUI

Project level snapshots are administered in the same way as share level snapshots. The following actions are documented under the shares section.

• Listing snapshots

• Taking snapshots

• Renaming a snapshot

• Destroying a snapshot

• Scheduled Snapshots

Project snapshots do not support rollback or clone operations.

CLI

To access the snapshots for a project, navigate to the project and run the snapshots command.

clownfish:> shares select default
clownfish:shares default> snapshots
clownfish:shares default snapshots> 

From this point, snapshots are administered in the same way as share level snapshots. The following actions are documented under the shares section.

• Listing snapshots

• Taking snapshots

• Renaming a snapshot

• Destroying a snapshot

• Scheduled Snapshots

Project snapshots do not support rollback or clone operations.