Good evening, I have syncoid backups going to more than one destination and as a consequence I see could not find any snapshots to destroy; check snapshot names. WARNING: zfs destroy 'pool/data/set'@syncoid_host_timestamp; zfs destroy 'pool/data/set'@syncoid_host_timestamp failed: 256 at /sbin/…

One way to manage this (and it works for me) is something like this: Host A (where your “live” data lives and needs backing up) - run sanoid to take (and prune) snapshots based whatever retention needs you have. The key is to ensure that pruning here happens such that there is enough overlap to en…

Thanks for the suggestion. My concern with using sanoid snapshots for syncoid backups was that snapshots could get out of sync. Some of my hosts can be off line for days and weeks and that opens the door for snapshots on the destination to be destroyed while they are still needed for a returning cli…

Also take a look at Bookmarks. [image] Curious as to the utility of ZFS bookmarks OpenZFS When I heard Alan mention ZFS bookmarks on the latest 2.5 Admins I went looking on the OpenZFS documentation as this was not a feature I had previously been aware of, and I must admi…

Managing syncoid snapshots with multiple destinations

OpenZFS Sanoid

zeefizz April 11, 2026, 2:59am 4

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