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Jim Salter 2017-06-15 15:47:32 -04:00 committed by GitHub
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@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ Which would be enough to tell sanoid to take and keep 36 hourly snapshots, 30 da
+ --take-snapshots
This will process your sanoid.conf file, create snapshots, but it will NOT purge expired ones. Note that snapshots are not atomic relative to one another.
This will process your sanoid.conf file, create snapshots, but it will NOT purge expired ones. (Note that snapshots taken are atomic in an individual dataset context, <i>not</i> a global context - snapshots of pool/dataset1 and pool/dataset2 will each be internally consistent and atomic, but one may be a few filesystem transactions "newer" than the other.)
+ --prune-snapshots