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.\" 22.\" Copyright (c) 2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 23.\" Copyright 2011 Joshua M. Clulow <josh@sysmgr.org> 24.\" Copyright (c) 2011, 2019 by Delphix. All rights reserved. 25.\" Copyright (c) 2013 by Saso Kiselkov. All rights reserved. 26.\" Copyright (c) 2014, Joyent, Inc. All rights reserved. 27.\" Copyright (c) 2014 by Adam Stevko. All rights reserved. 28.\" Copyright (c) 2014 Integros [integros.com] 29.\" Copyright 2019 Richard Laager. All rights reserved. 30.\" Copyright 2018 Nexenta Systems, Inc. 31.\" Copyright 2019 Joyent, Inc. 32.\" 33.Dd June 30, 2019 34.Dt ZFS-SNAPSHOT 8 35.Os 36.Sh NAME 37.Nm zfs-snapshot 38.Nd Creates snapshots with the given names. 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 filesystem Ns @ Ns Ar snapname Ns | Ns Ar volume Ns @ Ns Ar snapname Ns ... 45.Sh DESCRIPTION 46.Bl -tag -width "" 47.It Xo 48.Nm zfs 49.Cm snapshot 50.Op Fl r 51.Oo Fl o Ar property Ns = Ns Ar value Oc Ns ... 52.Ar filesystem Ns @ Ns Ar snapname Ns | Ns Ar volume Ns @ Ns Ar snapname Ns ... 53.Xc 54All previous modifications by successful system calls to the file system are 55part of the snapshots. 56Snapshots are taken atomically, so that all snapshots correspond to the same 57moment in time. 58.Nm zfs Cm snap 59can be used as an alias for 60.Nm zfs Cm snapshot. 61See the 62.Em Snapshots 63section of 64.Xr zfsconcepts 8 65for details. 66.Bl -tag -width "-o" 67.It Fl o Ar property Ns = Ns Ar value 68Sets the specified property; see 69.Nm zfs Cm create 70for details. 71.It Fl r 72Recursively create snapshots of all descendent datasets 73.El 74.El 75.Sh SEE ALSO 76.Xr zfs-bookmark 8 , 77.Xr zfs-clone 8 , 78.Xr zfs-destroy 8 , 79.Xr zfs-diff 8 , 80.Xr zfs-hold 8 , 81.Xr zfs-rename 8 , 82.Xr zfs-rollback 8 , 83.Xr zfs-send 8 84