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These are policy-driven snapshot management and replication tools which use OpenZFS for underlying next-gen storage. (Btrfs support plans are shelved unless and until btrfs becomes reliable.)

19 mentions on Hacker News by 17 people: 1 story, 18 comments · first 2015-06-10 · latest 2026-09-17

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  1. …persistent data (e.g. [2]), then this is 90% of the backup requirements already fullfilled. [1]: https://github.com/jimsalterjrs/sanoid [2]: https://du.nkel.dev/blog/2026-05-16_rootless_docker_virtiofs_proxmox/
    comment by Helmut10001 · 2026-09-17 · in Backups Aren't Simple
  2. …for (offsite) backups. Why would they recommend this over something more established like https://github.com/jimsalterjrs/sanoid ? Has anybody tried it?
    comment by jmusall · 2026-07-08 · in How to Build a Minimal ZFS NAS Without Synology, QNAP, TrueNAS (2024)
  3. …without touching individual files or the need for individual file hashes (such as with rsync). [1]: https://github.com/jimsalterjrs/sanoid/blob/master/syncoid
    comment by Helmut10001 · 2024-09-28 · in Ask HN: What do you use to backup your VMs?
  4. …sanoid makes this fairly trivial to configure on a per-dataset basis. It's saved me more than once. https://github.com/jimsalterjrs/sanoid
    comment by blessedwhiskers · 2024-09-20 · in Linux Horror Stories and Protection Spells (Volume I) (2021)
  5. …snapshots, snapshot pruning, and sending of snapshots to a backup machine. Highly recommend https://github.com/jimsalterjrs/sanoid If you really find yourself wanting to gracefully deal with rollbacks and differences in a project,…
    comment by Modified3019 · 2023-09-05 · in ZFS for Dummies
  6. …flags and settings I use to create the pools. For snapshots and replication take a look at sanoid ( https://github.com/jimsalterjrs/sanoid ).
    comment by gigatexal · 2023-09-05 · in ZFS for Dummies
  7. …(with optional off-node sync) with sanoid/syncoid [0] (Perl) or pyznap [1] (Python). [0]: https://github.com/jimsalterjrs/sanoid [1]: https://github.com/yboetz/pyznap
    comment by sgarland · 2023-05-14 · in Python Port of 600 Line Bash Script: rsync-time-machine.py for Rsync Backups
  8. …ZFS or Snapper [2] for BTRFS as automatic snapshot solutions. Good luck with your endeavors! [0] https://github.com/jimsalterjrs/sanoid [1] https://github.com/kimono-koans/httm [2] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Snapper
    comment by pongo1231 · 2023-04-23 · in Ask HN: Why isn't BTRFS the default FS in home-oriented Linux distributions?
  9. …ZFS wrapper for snapshots. Also has syncoid to do offsite backups (ssh or usb hard disks) https://github.com/jimsalterjrs/sanoid/
    comment by mkj · 2022-09-18 · in $ rm Important.txt (uh oh)
  10. …I found an old 2017 issue about one user's reasoning when deciding between sanoid and zsnapsend: https://github.com/jimsalterjrs/sanoid/issues/102
    comment by infogulch · 2022-07-07 · in Zrepl on Rsync.net
  11. Given ZFS it's potentially worth looking at https://github.com/jimsalterjrs/sanoid
    comment by mst · 2022-05-16 · in Correct Backups Require Filesystem Snapshots
  12. …to a cloud VPS with a beefy network drive as an off-site backup. Both tools are available here: https://github.com/jimsalterjrs/sanoid The free tier of https://cronitor.io/ makes sure I'm alerted if a cronjob fails, or fails to run on…
    comment by marceldegraaf · 2022-02-04 · in Why Not ZFS (2021)
  13. sanoid ( https://github.com/jimsalterjrs/sanoid/ ) is probably the most featureful, but there's quite a few I'm aware of - zfsnap, zfs-auto-snapshot, zfs_autobackup, znapzend...
    comment by vluft · 2021-07-29 · in Let’s Talk OpenZFS Snapshots
  14. Two popular alternatives for this: https://github.com/zrepl/zrepl https://github.com/jimsalterjrs/sanoid/
    comment by 3np · 2021-06-19 · in Maddy: Composable all-in-one mail server
  15. …Yeah, setting up NFS/AFP/Samba is easy but there's also monitoring and snapshot management (like https://github.com/jimsalterjrs/sanoid ) and possibly external backups…
    comment by floatboth · 2017-04-11 · in Building a NAS
  16. …toolset will help immensely with handing the necessary zfs snapshot and send/receive commands: https://github.com/jimsalterjrs/sanoid
    comment by secabeen · 2017-04-10 · in Building a NAS
  17. sanoid https://github.com/jimsalterjrs/sanoid
    comment by waz0wski · 2015-12-01 · in Show HN: ZFS utils to mirror snapshots and apply retention
  18. …[3] https://github.com/masc3d/btrfs-sxbackup [4] https://github.com/digint/btrbk [5] https://github.com/jimsalterjrs/sanoid/ [6] https://github.com/lordsutch/btrfs-backup [7] https://github.com/jf647/btrfs-snap
    comment by csirac2 · 2015-06-10 · in Comparison of Attic vs. Bup vs. Obnam