Thanks to the copy-on-write design of ZFS, efficient, point-in-time snapshots of an entire pool or individual file system can be created at any time or on a regular schedule. Creating snapshots initially do not consume any data and are instantly created, allowing very granular policies to be created. Snapshots are also seamlessly exposed to protocols such as SMB, allowing Windows clients to browse “Previous Versions” of a file natively.
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