Time Slider Preferences Pane

Time Slider preferences pane allows you to enable or disable Time Slider, and provides access to the following features:

• Backing up to an external storage device

• Backing up file systems

• Changing storage space available to snapshots

• Deleting existing snapshots

Enabling and Disabling the Time Slider Service

By default, Time Slider is disabled. You can enable it using the steps mentioned in the following sections. When enabled, Time Slider uses the following SMF services:

• svc:/system/filesystem/zfs/auto-snapshot:frequent: Takes one snapshot every 15 minutes

• svc:/system/filesystem/zfs/auto-snapshot:hourly: Takes one snapshot every hour

• svc:/system/filesystem/zfs/auto-snapshot:daily: Takes one snapshot every day

• svc:/system/filesystem/zfs/auto-snapshot:weekly: Takes one snapshot every week

• svc:/system/filesystem/zfs/auto-snapshot:monthly: Takes one snapshot every month

• svc:/application/time-slider:default: Manages automatic deletion of snapshots

• svc:/application/time-slider/plugin:rsync: Replicates each snapshot automatically to a specified external storage device

How to Enable Time Slider

1. Open the Time Slider preferences pane by choosing System→Administration→Time Slider.
2. Select the Enable Time Slider option.
3. Click OK.

   Time Slider is enabled for all available ZFS file systems. To exclude one or more ZFS file systems, see How to Choose a Specific ZFS File System to Snapshot.

How to Disable Time Slider

1. Open the Time Slider preferences pane by choosing System→Administration→Time Slider.
2. Deselect the Enable Time Slider option.
3. Click OK.

   Time Slider is disabled for all available ZFS file systems.