


Grab a copy of my modification of Jollyjinx‚ ZFS Time Machine Script from my Github and put it in a folder of your choice.
#Openzfs on mac install#
#Openzfs on mac how to#
#Openzfs on mac portable#
I have 3 pools (remember internal, 1TB portable and 1TB mirror), right now according to ZetaWatch all 3 pools are imported but snapshots aren’t new enough on the two other pools (hollow and yellow) to be considered bona fide. The 3 dots are 3 instances of AnyBar, to visually and in the most subtle way notify me of the status of snapshotting regarding the pools.The Z is the icon for ZetaWatch, a tool to quickly see which pools are attached, their status, datasets and it also notifies if there are errors detected! 2 👍🏼.The ZFS relevant part is: – Let’s start from right to left all datasets from internal and portable pool snapshotted and saved as a backup with redundancyĭISCLAIMER: If you are in no way familiar or comfortable with the Terminal, this is not for you.

a second „Application z“ folder (complenenting /Applications with a zfs based one and with compression, resulting in space savings on my machine of 40%).Mail (super nice due to compression and big space savings (in my case 20% reduction of space needed).independent monitoring of the backup system („ is this darn thing actually doing what it’s supposed to do? 🤔 „).automatic backups via snapshots, redundancy in case of data corruption (happened before, saved my bacon a couple of times already).separate snapshotting for different folders (e.g.All important documents, data, pictures, videos on ZFS.2 external 1TB platters on my desk connected to a USB hub.a portable USB 3.0 external 1TB disk because I’m space constrained on my 128 GB machine.
