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Sanoid

Policy-driven ZFS snapshot management and replication

Backup & Recovery ★ 3.9k stars Hard setup GPL-3.0

Sanoid is a policy-driven snapshot management tool for ZFS filesystems, bundled with Syncoid for snapshot replication. Together they automate ZFS snapshots and offsite backup replication.

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Key features

  • Policy-based ZFS snapshots
  • Syncoid replication included
  • Automated pruning

Strengths

  • Released under the GPL-3.0 license
  • Active community (3.9k GitHub stars)
  • Written in Perl
  • Tiny footprint — runs in 128 MB RAM

Is Sanoid secure?

OSV.dev has no published security advisories for Sanoid's repository. No known vulnerabilities is not proof of security: it means none have been publicly catalogued.

Source: OSV.dev, checked 2026-10-14. How this is measured.

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