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Automatic Timestamped ZFS Snapshots with Cron

A couple of months ago I setup a cron job to automatically create timestamped snapshots of my zfs filesystem. Little did I know, there was a syntax error preventing my job from actually executing. Here’s the correct (yet not-so-intuitive) cron job to get a nightly, timestamped snapshot of the ZFS filesystem @tank@:

Michael Altfield

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