Samba and MS Shadow Copy

Stefan (metze) Metzmacher metze at metzemix.de
Thu Aug 7 14:26:16 GMT 2003


At 08:31 06.08.2003 -0400, Ken Cross wrote:

> > >
> > >what is if we have 0 volumes and lables?
>
>It just returns num_volumes = 0, data_size = 16.
>
>
> >
> > My winXP sp1 box doesn't send the ioctl call over the wire :-(
> >
> > NTFILMON from www.sysinternals.com
> >
> > shows IOCTL:0x14019F    INVALID DEVICE REQUEST
> >
> > but ethereal didn't show anything...
> >
> > Is any flag that says this is enabled?
> >
>
>I'm running XP Pro SP1, but it needs the Shadow Copy upgrade from
>http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e382358f-33c3-4de7-
>acd8-a33ac92d295e   Once that was installed, it worked great.
>
>You mean your box sent 0x14019F?  No idea where that came from.  Does
>NTFILMON have a value for 0x00144064 (that's what I'm seeing).

It's now working...

I also get the ShadowCopies Dialog on file/dir properties.

But they don't show any older files :-(

Here's a trace with my samba returning 18 snaps...

I have added @GMT-.... directories by hand to the share
so the snapshot files are there...

But there's not shown

>Do you have a Win 2003 Server that you can test against to see if it sees
>"real" Shadow Copies?

No, not yet :-(



metze
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