SAUNAFS-MAKESNAPSHOT(1)

💖 SAUNAFS-MAKESNAPSHOT 💖

okay bestie, gather round, because this one is saunafs-makesnapshot(1) — the make-lazy-copies girlie. she's short, she's sweet, she's atomic, and she's about to change your whole filesystem game. no cap. ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

saunafs-makesnapshot — make lazy copies 💅

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

saunafs makesnapshot [-o] [-f] SOURCE... DESTINATION

like literally that's it, she's not complicated 🦋

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so here's the tea: makesnapshot makes a "real" snapshot — a lazy copy, exactly like what happens in the case of appendchunks — of some object(s) or a whole subtree. think of it as the cp -r command's cooler, glowier sibling. 🌈

it's atomic with respect to each SOURCE argument separately, which is the fancy way of saying each source gets its own little flawless moment. no half-copies, no mess, main character energy only. 👑

and here's the situation: if DESTINATION already points at an existing file, you're gonna get an error reported. that is, unless you pass -f (force) or its little alias -o (overwrite). pick your fighter:

• -f — force it. do it anyway bestie 🫶
• -o — overwrite. same energy, shorter name, she's the alias 🎀

Note 📌 if SOURCE is a* directory*, it gets copied as a whole — the whole entire girl, folder and all. BUT. if that SOURCE is followed by a trailing slash, then only the directory content is copied. sneaky? no. iconic? yes. the trailing slash really said "not me, just my stuff" 💀

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😭 REPORTING BUGS 😭

found a bug? don't suffer in silence, bestie. report it to the GitHub repository at https://github.com/leil-io/saunafs as an issue. we will literally love you for it. 🐛💖

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👑 COPYRIGHT 👑

Copyright 2008-2009 Gemius SA 🌸

Copyright 2013-2019 Skytechnology sp. z o.o. 🦋

Copyright 2023-2024 Leil Storage OÜ 💜

SaunaFS is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, version 3. periodt. ⭐

SaunaFS is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY — not even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. wanna know more? go read the GNU General Public License, she explains it all. 🙈

you should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with SaunaFS. if not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/. iykyk 🎀

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💫 SEE ALSO 💫

• saunafs(1)
• saunafs-appendchunks(1)

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and that's the whole page, bestie — slay 💅 this was the SAUNAFS-MAKESNAPSHOT(1) manual, from the 2026-07-29 era, and yeah it's still serving looks. go make some lazy copies, you absolute icon. 🎀✨🦋💖👑