Add ZFS Support

[liberodark]

Hi,

Now have ubuntu is adding ZFS that would great to add support for snapshot.

Best Regards

[ptrk64]

Anyone working on this?? If so let me know if I can help.

If not I'll try to find some time time to create a branch and start working on ZFS support :)

Cheers,
Peter

[Vijay5189]

Ubuntu 20.04 on ZFS root , timeshift running in live mode

[thebiggestmac]

Why do you need ZFS support in Timeshift? ZFS has its own snapshots which are much better than Timeshift's ones.

[mvhecht]

Because some people want to host the backup of their non-ZFS root drives on a ZFS drive.

[guttermonk]

I would like to host the backup of my ZFS root drives on a non-ZFS drive. In other words, periodically and automatically backup my ZFS root system files to my NAS.

[dmshimself]

Yes Ihave the same type of rig with the same requirement. Popping the snapshots out to a ZFS dataset would be very useful

[zparihar]

+1

I'd like to have a ZFS feature inside Timeshift. Right now I have things setup in a Cron Job, but I'd like to have a GUI tool to do this!

[TruncatedDinoSour]

+1

should definally be added

[almereyda]

Meanwhile, I've heard people have good experiences with zrepl.

• https://github.com/zrepl/zrepl

via

• https://github.com/stars/almereyda?q=zfs

[dmshimself]

As a sort of workaround, I created a zvol, formatted as ext4 and timeshift picks it up fine and puts snapshots there.

[teejee2008]

Rsync snapshots can be saved on a ZFS-formatted disk if your Linux system is installed on a non-ZFS file system.

However, if your system is installed on ZFS then you won't be able to create snapshots. ZFS has a weird disk layout that is not supported.