Freebsd-snapshot

Jul 20, 2023

Convenience frontend tools for the management of UFS2/ZFS snapshots

freebsd-snapshot is a set of convenience frontend tools to mount8 and mdconfig8 for the management of UFS2/ZFS snapshots. It is also the under-lying tool used in the periodic snapshot scheduler periodic-snapshot8 and the mounting/unmouning command in the amd8 map /usr/local/etc/amd.map.snap. It provides the making, expiring, visiting, mounting and unmounting of filesystem snapshots.



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