Chapter 6

Working With ZFS Snapshots and Clones

This chapter describes how to create and manage ZFS snapshots and clones. Information about saving snapshots is also provided in this chapter.

The following sections are provided in this chapter:

• Overview of ZFS Snapshots

• Creating and Destroying ZFS Snapshots

• Displaying and Accessing ZFS Snapshots

• Rolling Back to a ZFS Snapshot

• Overview of ZFS Clones

• Creating a ZFS Clone

• Destroying a ZFS Clone

• Saving and Restoring ZFS Data