Oracle^® ZFS Storage Appliance Administration Guide, Release OS8.7.x

Taking a Snapshot (CLI)

Use the following procedure to take a manual snapshot of a filesystem, LUN, or project.

To schedule automatic snapshots at regular intervals, see Scheduling Snapshots (CLI).

1. Go to the share or project you want to snapshot.
   1. To take a snapshot of a project, go to shares and select the project.

      hostname:shares> select myproject
      hostname:shares myproject>

   2. To take a snapshot of a filesystem or LUN, go to shares and select the project containing the share, then select the share.

      hostname:shares> select myproject
      hostname:shares myproject> select demo_share
      hostname:shares myproject/demo_share>

2. Enter snapshots.

   hostname:shares myproject/demo_share> snapshots

3. Use the snapshot command followed by the name you want to give the new snapshot.

   hostname:shares myproject/demo_share snapshots> snapshot demo_snap