Open source tool automating ZFS snapshot creation and expiration based on your scheduling needs.
Snapshot creation schedule could be hourly, daily or monthly. Each of these frequency types can retain a given quantity of snapshots before expiring them.
Follow these steps to install zman on your system.
Two choices
On Linux or macOS, just copy the zman executable to the /usr/local/sbin folder. On Windows, make sure it's in the path.
Refer to this scenario.
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