diff --git a/configuration.nix b/configuration.nix
index 52ab306..8519d3a 100644
--- a/configuration.nix
+++ b/configuration.nix
@@ -85,7 +85,6 @@ let ssh_pubkeys = {
         daily = 7;
         autosnap = true;
         autoprune = true;
-        post_snapshot_script = "/var/src/snaplink";
       };
       datasets."rpool/nixos/home".use_template = [ "prod" ];
       datasets."rpool/nixos/var/lib".use_template = [ "prod" ];
diff --git a/krops.nix b/krops.nix
index 6a930b6..dc60e1b 100644
--- a/krops.nix
+++ b/krops.nix
@@ -9,9 +9,6 @@ let
     {
       nixpkgs.symlink = "/root/.nix-defexpr/channels/nixos";
       nixos-config.file = toString ./configuration.nix;
-
-      # TODO: how to make this nix-managed?
-      snaplink.file = toString ./scripts/snaplink;
       secrets.pass = {
         dir = toString ./secrets;
         name = "hel1-a";
diff --git a/scripts/snaplink b/scripts/snaplink
deleted file mode 100755
index 1250dab..0000000
--- a/scripts/snaplink
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-set -euo pipefail
-_fatal() { >&2 echo "ERROR: $*"; exit 1; }
-mountpoint=$(zfs list -H -t filesystem -o mountpoint "$SANOID_TARGET")
-[[ -n "$mountpoint" ]] || _fatal "expected non-empty $SANOID_TARGET"
-snap_path="$mountpoint/.zfs/snapshot/$SANOID_SNAPNAME"
-[[ -d "$snap_path" ]] || _fatal "expected to find a directory in $snap_path"
-link_path="$mountpoint/.snapshot-latest"
-ln -sf "$snap_path" "$link_path"
->&2 printf "successfully created %s -> %s\n" "$link_path" "$snap_path"