Alternatives to ZnapZend
A ZFS backup tool that takes scheduled snapshots and sends them to local or remote pools. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
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ZnapZend
A ZFS backup tool that takes scheduled snapshots and sends them to local or remote pools.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as ZnapZend.
Sanoid
Policy-driven ZFS snapshot management and replication tools, with syncoid for sending snapshots to other machines.
Sanoid keeps snapshot retention policy in a readable config file instead of ZFS properties, with syncoid handling incremental replication, and works on Linux and FreeBSD.
zrepl
ZFS backup and replication daemon that snapshots datasets and replicates them between pools and hosts.
zrepl combines ZFS snapshots, pruning and replication in one daemon configured through a file rather than ZFS properties, with published documentation and an MIT license.
ZFS autobackup
A command-line tool that snapshots ZFS filesystems and replicates them to other locations on a schedule.
ZFS autobackup selects datasets through a custom ZFS property and works as a backup, replication or snapshot tool, but lacks ZnapZend's pre- and post-snapshot hooks.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
btrbk
Backup tool for Btrfs that takes atomic snapshots and sends them incrementally to backup locations.
Snapper
A Linux command-line tool for creating and managing filesystem snapshots so system changes can be undone.
TrueNAS Community Edition
A free Linux-based storage operating system built on OpenZFS, with Docker apps and virtualization.
Timeshift
System restore for Linux: scheduled snapshots you can roll back to after an update goes wrong.
