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Getting started
Send your first ZFS snapshot to a conduit using native zfs send | ssh. No agents, no wrappers.
1. Create a conduit
Sign in and click + New conduit. Choose a plan and region, paste your SSH public key, and complete checkout. Your jail is provisioned in under 60 seconds.
2. Find your connection details
Once active, your conduit row shows the full command pre-filled with your hostname, port, and dataset path. Copy it with the ⎘ copy button.
3. Send your first snapshot
Replace
YOUR_DATASET with the name of the local ZFS dataset you want to back up (e.g. tank/data).
The
-R flag includes all child datasets and snapshots. The -v flag prints progress. The first send transfers the full dataset; subsequent sends can use -i for incremental replication.
4. Verify
SSH into your conduit and list the received datasets to confirm everything arrived: