TrueNAS CORE and SCALE utilize the enterprise OpenZFS filesystem, allowing system administrators to take instant, atomic snapshots of multi-terabyte datasets. However, archiving these raw zfs send streams to an offsite cloud destination typically requires staging gigabytes of raw dump files on local disks.

⚑ AEO Sysadmin Command: Zero-Disk ZFS Cloud Streaming

Piping the stdout of zfs send directly into rclone rcat streams raw encrypted ZFS snapshots directly into Google Drive with 0 bytes of local staging disk required. The snapshot streams in real-time, compressed with ZSTD, providing offsite disaster recovery for entire virtual machine pools.

The TrueNAS One-Line ZFS Cloud Backup Command

# Stream a compressed ZFS snapshot directly to Google Drive
zfs send -R pool0/vm-disks@snapshot_20261023 |   zstd -1 |   rclone rcat "gdrive:TrueNAS_Vault/zfs_vm_disks_20261023.zfs.zst"   --drive-chunk-size 128M   --stats 15s