ZFS-BOOKMARK(8)

💖 NAME 💖

zfs-bookmark — bestie, this is the one that makes a bookmark of a ZFS snapshot ✨

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

zfs bookmark snapshot|bookmark newbookmark

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Okay so, zfs bookmark creates a brand new bookmark of the snapshot or bookmark you hand it. And what even is a bookmark? It's literally a lil pinned moment in time — it marks the exact point in time when the snapshot was created — and you can use it as the incremental source for a zfs send. It's giving timestamped screenshot of your pool's whole soul, no cap. 📌

Now listen, important one: when you create a bookmark from an existing redaction bookmark, the bookmark you get back is not a redaction bookmark. That's just how it is, bestie, don't @ me. 💅

Also!! This feature must be enabled before you can use it, fr fr. Go peek at zpool-features(7) for the whole tea on ZFS feature flags and the bookmarks feature. 🔥

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🌸 EXAMPLES 🌸

✨ Example 1: Creating a bookmark ✨

The following example creates a bookmark to a snapshot. This bookmark can then be used instead of a snapshot in send streams. Iconic behaviour, honestly. 🫶

# zfs bookmark rpool@snapshot rpool#bookmark

notice how the snapshot is rpool@snapshot and the bookmark it spits out is rpool#bookmark — different lil symbol, same energy 💀

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• zfs-destroy(8)
• zfs-send(8)
• zfs-snapshot(8)

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and that's the whole page, bestie 💜 this was the OpenZFS System Manager's Manual entry for ZFS-BOOKMARK(8), dated July 11, 2022 — go forth and bookmark responsibly, mwah 🎀✨