Is there something like TimeSlider in FreeBSD?

[srulop]

Although FreeBSD supports ZFS, I can't find in the ports anything for ZFS snapshots visualization, like the TimeSlider in OpenSolaris.
It seems strange to me that such a useful thing is missing. So is there some other app that's just as comfortable instead?

 

[mk]

you have to understand the fact that power user don't need gui thing.

 

[DutchDaemon]

@mk, if you don't have the answer, just don't reply. This is not helping anyone.

 

[Matty]

there is an auto snapshot tool in the ports but there is no gui for it.

 

[phoenix]

AFAIK, Sun never pushed their patches to Nautilus upstream, which means TimeSlider is only available in their version of GNOME. There's no other GUI wrapper to ZFS snapshots that I know of.

However, you can kind of fake it by using a separate ZFS filesystem for each user's home directory, and then either setting the snapdir property to visible (so they can see the .zfs/snapshot directory), or creating a symlink in their $HOME that points to .zfs/snapshot.

Either of those will make the snapshot directory visible in their file manager of choice.