[Samba] vfs_shadow_copy2 with different snapshot format

[Lee Allen]

If I could piggyback on this thread, my issue is very similar...

smb.conf:
shadow: format = zfs-auto-snap_frequent-%Y-%m-%d-%H%M

As you might guess, I am using the zfs-auto-snapshot package, and I don't
have control over snapshot names.  It assigns names like:
zfs-auto-snap_daily-YYYY-MM-DD-HHMM
zfs-auto-snap_hourly-YYYY-MM-DD-HHMM
zfs-auto-snap_frequent-YYYY-MM-DD-HHMM

So my shadow: format mask is not a match with the real snapshot names.

Under Windows my 'Restore previous versions' shows only previous versions
for today, as the OP also experienced.  I have been intentionally modifying
this file a couple times a day for the past 2 days.

Is there a "shadow: format" syntax that lets me just ignore that 3rd word
(daily/hourly/frequent), or perhaps all of the text prior to the date/time
string?

Thanks

Lee


On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 7:40 PM, Daniel O'Connor <darius at dons.net.au> wrote:

>
> On 24 Jan 2014, at 12:22, Sabuj Pattanayek <sabujp at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Interesting, it's working now, but it's only showing today's snapshot
> and not the previous ones, but this is encouraging.
>
> It only shows an entry if the file differs I believe.
> (Not sure exactly how it determines if a file has changed though)
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