zfs send tank/data@2026-08-09 | zfs receive backup/data

Category: Backup & Restore

zfs send tank/data@2026-08-09 | zfs receive backup/data

Stream a ZFS snapshot to another pool

Pipes the snapshot's data to zfs receive, recreating it on the backup pool, the standard way to copy datasets off the main machine. The destination dataset must not already exist. Incremental variants use -i with an earlier snapshot.
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