simplesnap is a powerful system for transferring ZFS snapshots across a network. It has excellent documentation. See it at: <https://rawgithub.com/jgoerzen/simplesnap/master/doc/simplesnap.html> Or, if simplesnap is installed on your system, simply run: man simplesnap See also the examples included in the source distribution. See also my blog post about it: <http://changelog.complete.org/archives/9168-backing-up-every-few-minutes-with-simplesnap>