[Samba] shadow_copy for homes share

Cory Coager ccoager at davisvision.com
Thu Aug 28 12:23:10 GMT 2008


Aaron Browne wrote:
> Maybe you can go about it a different way and offer a "recovery" drive to
> the users. Rather than using "homes" for the shadow_copy, which is posing
> problems for you, setup another share called "recover" that points to the
> snapshot area. Users can then to browse into their home directory via the
> "recover" share and recover/view their old files.
>
> Cheers,
> Aaron
>   
Thats a good idea.  We already have this in place for Administrators to 
recover files for end users.

I ended up making this work by creating a script to create and delete 
symlinks in each users folder.




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