[Samba] shadow_copy2 writable?

Tom Jermy tomjermy at gmail.com
Thu Jun 5 02:23:02 MDT 2014


Thank you for that.

Does anyone have any idea on how I can test this (preferably without
installing cryptolocker?!)


On 4 June 2014 23:48, Andrew Bartlett <abartlet at samba.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 2014-06-03 at 20:37 +0100, Tom Jermy wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Can anyone reassure that files & folders made available to windows via
> vfs
> > shadow_copy2 cannot be modified in any way? My NAS backups are stored on
> an
> > iscsi target formatted with ext4 & I'm concerned that they could be
> > tampered with by a virus such as Cryptolocker.
>
> Samba probably won't stop such access, but your underlying snapshot
> mechanism probably does.
>
> Andrew Bartlett
>
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