vault backup: 2026-05-14 12:30:07

_Inbox/Sanoid and Syncoid Setup.md

@@ -25,7 +25,12 @@ I've set this up on on a [[Proxmox]] backup machine, it creates the zfs snapshot
 	`/etc/sanoid/sanoid.conf`
 	`/etc/sanoid/sanoid.defaults.conf`
 	`/usr/local/bin/zfs-nightly-backup.sh`
-- setup the cron job
-	`crontab -e`
-	`0 3 * * * /usr/local/bin/zfs-nightly-backup.sh > /var/log/zfs-backup.log 2>&1`
-	
+
+### scheduled snapshots and prune
+
+by default, when installing via `apt` it starts a timer service that executes every 15minutes. for my requirements i need to disable this for now
+	`systemctl stop timer.sanoid.service`
+	`systemctl disable time.sanoid.service`
+
+
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