1.\" 2.\" CDDL HEADER START 3.\" 4.\" The contents of this file are subject to the terms of the 5.\" Common Development and Distribution License (the "License"). 6.\" You may not use this file except in compliance with the License. 7.\" 8.\" You can obtain a copy of the license at usr/src/OPENSOLARIS.LICENSE 9.\" or http://www.opensolaris.org/os/licensing. 10.\" See the License for the specific language governing permissions 11.\" and limitations under the License. 12.\" 13.\" When distributing Covered Code, include this CDDL HEADER in each 14.\" file and include the License file at usr/src/OPENSOLARIS.LICENSE. 15.\" If applicable, add the following below this CDDL HEADER, with the 16.\" fields enclosed by brackets "[]" replaced with your own identifying 17.\" information: Portions Copyright [yyyy] [name of copyright owner] 18.\" 19.\" CDDL HEADER END 20.\" 21.\" Copyright (c) 2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 22.\" Copyright 2011 Joshua M. Clulow <josh@sysmgr.org> 23.\" Copyright (c) 2011, 2019 by Delphix. All rights reserved. 24.\" Copyright (c) 2013 by Saso Kiselkov. All rights reserved. 25.\" Copyright (c) 2014, Joyent, Inc. All rights reserved. 26.\" Copyright (c) 2014 by Adam Stevko. All rights reserved. 27.\" Copyright (c) 2014 Integros [integros.com] 28.\" Copyright 2019 Richard Laager. All rights reserved. 29.\" Copyright 2018 Nexenta Systems, Inc. 30.\" Copyright 2019 Joyent, Inc. 31.\" 32.Dd May 27, 2021 33.Dt ZFS-SNAPSHOT 8 34.Os 35. 36.Sh NAME 37.Nm zfs-snapshot 38.Nd create snapshots of ZFS datasets 39.Sh SYNOPSIS 40.Nm zfs 41.Cm snapshot 42.Op Fl r 43.Oo Fl o Ar property Ns = Ns Ar value Oc Ns … 44.Ar dataset Ns @ Ns Ar snapname Ns … 45. 46.Sh DESCRIPTION 47All previous modifications by successful system calls to the file system are 48part of the snapshots. 49Snapshots are taken atomically, so that all snapshots correspond to the same 50moment in time. 51.Nm zfs Cm snap 52can be used as an alias for 53.Nm zfs Cm snapshot . 54See the 55.Sx Snapshots 56section of 57.Xr zfsconcepts 7 58for details. 59.Bl -tag -width "-o" 60.It Fl o Ar property Ns = Ns Ar value 61Set the specified property; see 62.Nm zfs Cm create 63for details. 64.It Fl r 65Recursively create snapshots of all descendent datasets 66.El 67. 68.Sh SEE ALSO 69.Xr zfs-bookmark 8 , 70.Xr zfs-clone 8 , 71.Xr zfs-destroy 8 , 72.Xr zfs-diff 8 , 73.Xr zfs-hold 8 , 74.Xr zfs-rename 8 , 75.Xr zfs-rollback 8 , 76.Xr zfs-send 8 77