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 Introduction
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+ZFS autobackup is used to periodicly backup ZFS filesystems to other locations. This is done using the very effcient zfs send and receive commands.
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+It has the following features:
+* Automaticly selects filesystems to backup by looking at a simple ZFS property.
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