[Samba] shadow_copy for homes share
Scott Lovenberg
scott.lovenberg at gmail.com
Tue Aug 26 15:30:01 GMT 2008
Cory Coager wrote:
> 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
>>>
Hrm... could you symlink it to a known, non-variable path? I have
absolutely no idea if that would work, but I figured I'd throw it out there.
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