[Samba] LVM + xfs + Shadow copy

[David Disseldorp]

On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:14:20 +0200 (CEST)
Adam Roland <roland.adam at freemail.hu> wrote:

> 
> 
> hi there,
> 
> i begin to install shadow copy VFS mod function in samba 3.0.24-6etch9, after i see  the same function at win2003srv, 
> i think it could be very useful, if i gonna make it under DEB,
> 
> but at the moment i'm really get stucked,
> 
> i try to describe what's the point now;
> 
> 1 - load shadow_copy mod in smb.conf
>  vfs objects = shadow_copy
> 2 - install shadow copy client in WinXPProf
> 3 - write script to make snapshot to my LVM2 + XFS system
>  SNAPNAME=`date+%Y.%m.%d_%H.%M.%S`  

SNAPNAME=`date +%Y.%m.%d-%H.%M.%S`

also should probably do a `xfs_freeze -f /home` here if lvcreate doesn't.

>  lvcreate -v -L10M -s -n $SNAPNAME /dev/lvmgroup1/home  
>  xfs_freeze -u  /home 
>  mkdir /home/@GMT-$SNAPNAME 
>  mount /dev/mapper/lvmgroup1-$SNAPNAME /home/@GMT-$SNAPNAME -onouuid,ro
> 4 - everything seems to be fine, but when i open previous version window under WinXP, it's blank ...
> 
> so what else, i have no more idea,
> 
> can anyone help me?

whats your smb.conf look like?

Also add `log level = 10` to smb.conf and attatch the output from:
# grep shadow /var/log/samba/log.smbd

Cheers, Dave