zsnapac

oh-my-zsh plugin for taking ZFS pre/post upgrade snapshots on Arch Linux.

Setup

Requires ZFS and oh-my-zsh.

Clone the plugin in your oh-my-zsh plugin directory.

cd ${ZSH_CUSTOM}/plugins
git clone git@github.com:johnramsden/zsh-zsnapac.git zsnapac

Now add the plugin to your zshrc active plugins, it should be added as 'zsnapac'.

plugins=(zsnapac)

Options

To set the options, edit the zsnapac-settings.zsh configfile

• ZFS_PAC_SNAP_DATASETS=("zpool/ROOT/default") - Dataset(s) to snapshot.
• ZFS_AUR_UPDATE - To use an aur updater, override or set the ZFS_AUR_UPDATE function

Usage

The zsnapac command is used to manage the updates and installs

The following commands exist:

• zsnapac | zsnapac update - Update system with pre/post ZFS snapshots
• zsnapac install <packages> - Install packages with pre/post ZFS snapshots
• zsnapac aur [packages] - Run self defined aur command set in 'zsnapac-settings.zsh'