SANOID(8)

NAME
sanoid - a policy-driven snapshot management tool for ZFS filesystems.

DESCRIPTION

  Usage:

    sanoid [options]

    Assumes --cron --verbose if no other arguments (other than configdir) are specified

    Options:

--configdir=DIR
    Specify a directory to find config file sanoid.conf

--cache-dir=DIR
    Specify a directory to store the zfs snapshot cache

--run-dir=DIR
    Specify a directory for temporary files such as lock files

--cron
    Creates snapshots and purges expired snapshots

--verbose
    Prints out additional information during a sanoid run

--readonly
    Simulates creation/deletion of snapshots

--quiet
    Suppresses non-error output

--force-update
    Clears out sanoid's zfs snapshot cache

--monitor-health
    Reports on zpool "health", in a Nagios compatible format

--monitor-capacity
    Reports on zpool capacity, in a Nagios compatible format

--monitor-snapshots
    Reports on snapshot "health", in a Nagios compatible format

--take-snapshots
    Creates snapshots as specified in sanoid.conf

--prune-snapshots
    Purges expired snapshots as specified in sanoid.conf

--force-prune
    Purges expired snapshots even if a send/recv is in progress

--help
    Prints this helptext

--version
    Prints the version number

--debug
    Prints out a lot of additional information during a sanoid run