diff --git a/maintainers/maintainer-list.nix b/maintainers/maintainer-list.nix
index b6add449b9bf..841128affd82 100644
--- a/maintainers/maintainer-list.nix
+++ b/maintainers/maintainer-list.nix
@@ -3900,6 +3900,11 @@
     github = "sjagoe";
     name = "Simon Jagoe";
   };
+  sjau = {
+    email = "nixos@sjau.ch";
+    github = "sjau";
+    name = "Stephan Jau";
+  };
   sjmackenzie = {
     email = "setori88@gmail.com";
     github = "sjmackenzie";
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/backup/easysnap/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/backup/easysnap/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..a8c726c9e161
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/tools/backup/easysnap/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+{stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, zfs }:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  name = "easysnap-${version}";
+  version = "unstable-2018-10-28";
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "sjau";
+    repo = "easysnap";
+    rev = "aa2768762da7730aa3eb90fdc2190a8359976edc";
+    sha256 = "0csn7capsmlkin4cf1fgl766gvszvqfllqkiyz0g9bvbapxv7nba";
+  };
+
+  installPhase = ''
+    mkdir -p $out/bin
+    cp -n easysnap* $out/bin/
+
+    for i in $out/bin/*; do
+      substituteInPlace $i \
+        --replace zfs ${zfs}/bin/zfs
+    done
+  '';
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    homepage    = https://github.com/sjau/easysnap;
+    description = "Customizable ZFS Snapshotting tool with zfs send/recv pulling";
+    license     = licenses.gpl3;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ sjau ];
+  };
+
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 740c3111a200..a1120da229ce 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -2335,6 +2335,8 @@ with pkgs;
 
   easyrsa2 = callPackage ../tools/networking/easyrsa/2.x.nix { };
 
+  easysnap = callPackage ../tools/backup/easysnap { };
+
   ebook_tools = callPackage ../tools/text/ebook-tools { };
 
   ecryptfs = callPackage ../tools/security/ecryptfs { };