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ZFS receive resume token

A ZFS receive resume token is an opaque property value used to resume a saved, partially completed filesystem or volume receive.

The receiver exposes receive_resume_token after an interrupted resumable receive. Passing it to zfs send -t generates the continuation stream. [1] Its presence describes unfinished state, not a completed backup. [3]

Relations

related

snapshot, incremental-backup, zfs-bookmark, backup-verification

Limitations

• zfs receive -A discards saved partial state instead of retrying it. [2]

Citations

1. OpenZFS v2.3: zfsprops(7), receive_resume_token (accessed 2026-10-18)
2. OpenZFS v2.3: zfs-receive(8), incremental and raw receives (accessed 2026-10-18)
3. Hesela: Snapshots and backups: which failures can you recover from? (accessed 2026-10-18)

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