8 Working With Oracle Solaris ZFS Snapshots and Clones

This chapter describes how to create and manage Oracle Solaris ZFS snapshots and clones. It also provides information about saving snapshots.

The chapter covers the following topics:

• Overview of ZFS Snapshots.

• Creating and Destroying ZFS Snapshots.

• Displaying and Accessing ZFS Snapshots.

• Rolling Back a ZFS Snapshot.

• Overview of ZFS Clones.

• Creating a ZFS Clone.

• Destroying a ZFS Clone.

• Replacing a ZFS File System With a ZFS Clone.

• Saving, Sending, and Receiving ZFS Data.

• Monitoring ZFS Pool Operations