zfs-bookmark8
Create bookmark of zfs snapshot
Usage
zfs {bookmark
[-r]
snapshot | bookmark
newbookmark}
Overview
Creates a new bookmark of the given snapshot or bookmark. Bookmarks mark the point in time when the snapshot was created, and can be used as the incremental source for a zfs send.
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-r -
Recursively create bookmarks for the given source snapshot of all descendent datasets. The source must be a snapshot, and a bookmark is created only for the descendants that have a snapshot of that name; descendants without it are skipped.
Not on Linux.
When creating a bookmark from an existing redaction bookmark, the resulting bookmark is not a redaction bookmark.
This feature must be enabled to be used. See zpool-features(7) for details on ZFS feature flags and the bookmarks feature.
Examples
Example 1 : No Creating a bookmark
The following example creates a bookmark to a snapshot. This bookmark can then be used instead of a snapshot in send streams.
# zfs bookmark rpool@snapshot rpool#bookmark
Releases
15 releases since FreeBSD 13.0-RELEASE; the text changed 4 times.
-r since FreeBSD 16.0-CURRENT (2026-10-27).