If you need to export ZFS volumes through CIFS, follow this simple step by step procedure.

If you’ve been following my blog for a while, you might have seen posts about SSH, RSYNC, ZFS Snapshots and so on. This article aims at describing the big picture, and to explain how I’ve been using those tools and technologies to build my own home backup system.

ZFS is a great filesystem. Amongst its many features, it has snapshots. Let’s see how to use them.