[Samba] shadow_copy for homes share

[Cory Coager]

So its not possible to use variables for the 'subpath' option?

Damien Dye wrote:
> I don't think that will work because homes is dynamic I believe that 
> the snapshots have to be mounted at the root of the share and homes 
> has the root of the share at /home/username you have the snapshots 
> mounted at /home
>
> hope this helps
>
> Damien
>
> Cory Coager wrote:
>> I have successfully setup shadow_copy for normal shares on our samba 
>> test server.  However, I cannot get it working for the homes share 
>> because of its uniqueness.
>>
>> Here is the homes share:
>>
>>    [homes]
>>      comment = Home Directories
>>      read only = No
>>      create mask = 0700
>>      directory mask = 0700
>>      browseable = no
>>      fstype = XFS 1.2
>>      vfs object = shadow_copy
>>      shadow_copy: path = /samba/homes/
>>      shadow_copy: subpath = %D+%U
>>
>> The users authenticate against Active Directory.  The path to the 
>> snapshots is located at /samba/homes/@GMT-YYYY.MM.DD-HH.MM.SS  Using 
>> the subpath each individual files should be located at 
>> /samba/homes/@GMT-YYYY.MM.DD-HH.MM.SS/DOMAIN+user but the previous 
>> versions tab is missing on this share.  What am I doing wrong?
>>
>>
>> ~Cory Coager
>>
>>
>>
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