Have you restored any data using this system? A backup isn't a backup unless you've practiced a whole cycle. Snapshots are incremental, so management of your r

Have you restored any data using this system? A backup isn't a backup unless you've practiced a whole cycle. Snapshots are incremental, so management of your retention period is an active process and may require combining older snapshots together when you drop them. With a zfs server on the other end you can zfs send / recv the other way to restore, and it correctly manages deleted snapshots.