To periodic and Flexible Backup Snapshot Creation Edit your crontab and include this: # Perform hourly/daily/weekly maintenance (FreeBSD UFS2/ZFS snapshots only). 0 * * * * root /usr/local/sbin/periodic-snapshot hourly 0 0 * * * root /usr/local/sbin/periodic-snapshot daily 0 0 * * 0 root /usr/local/sbin/periodic-snapshot weekly and edit your periodic.conf and include this: # UFS2/ZFS Snapshot Creation snapshot_enable="YES" snapshot_schedule="/,/usr:2:1:0 /var:0:2:4 /home:2:6:8@8,12,16,20" ---- To easy Access to Backup Snapshot Data Edit your rc.conf and include this: # UFS2/ZFS Snapshot Access amd_enable="YES" amd_flags="-a /.am -c 1800 -w 60 -l syslog /snap /usr/local/etc/amd.map.snap"