[Samba] File versioning with Samba (on a Linux filesystem)?

[Craig White]

On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 10:20 -0500, Barry, Christopher wrote:
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> > [mailto:samba-bounces+cbarry=silverstorm.com at lists.samba.org] 
> > On Behalf Of Terry Jones
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2006 12:39 PM
> > To: samba at lists.samba.org
> > Subject: [Samba] File versioning with Samba (on a Linux filesystem)?
> > 
> > Apologies if this question is answered somewhere obvious. I 
> > just spent a
> > couple of hours surfing around trying to find an answer.
> > 
> > I'd like to provide windows clients with access to files via 
> > samba and have
> > samba (or other) do file versioning. In the case that a user 
> > happens to
> > delete a file or we want to return to an earlier version, 
> > that should be
> > possible.
> > 
> > Is there a standard solution for this?
> > 
> > I can think of various ways it might be done, but there 
> > doesn't seem to be
> > much on the net about doing it in practice. Support at the 
> > (in this case
> > Linux) filesystem level would be good. If Samba had an option to do it
> > automatically, that would be good. I saw something about 
> > making a .recycle
> > bin for file removal, but I didn't get the impression this 
> > was going to
> > provide file versioning.  Less good would be having Samba 
> > hooks allowing
> > external scripts to be run pre or post file save, so that one 
> > could use an
> > external source code control system. Least good is to simply 
> > rely on your
> > backup schedule to hopefully allow recovery.
> > 

> I do something like this nightly. It's not 'real-time', and I store the
> versions on another box, but the effect is pretty similar. I have
> everyone map this box via the logon script, so they all have access to
> their older stuff. Letting people restore their own files is nice. ;)
> 
> It's done with a combination of glastree
> <http://www.igmus.org/code/#glastree>, and custom scripting I wrote to
> create a doubly-nested DFS tree, and to create all of the samba
> configuration files and acl files on the fly. I'm using NIS, and I'm
> setting access perms based on this - so it may need serious hacking if
> your environment is totally different.
> 
> If anyone is interested, I can tar up all of the scripts and send them
> out. There's nothing approaching documentation for it, but I can
> probably give limited help to anyone who has questions.
> 
> lemme know.
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don't know that you're interested but we do have a wiki for that type of
thing... http://wiki.samba.org which is ideal for that type of
information exchange.

Craig