[Samba] vfs_shadow_copy2 with snapprefix & delimiter options in samba 4.6.2

Michael Miller sambaorg at e.mjmm.org
Fri Feb 16 18:26:04 UTC 2018


Hi,

As per the list.samba.org link, did you try including the delimiter 
within the format, ie as shown in the following?

shadow:snapprefix = ^d[A-Za-z0-9]*y$
shadow:delimiter = _IPG_
shadow:format = _IPG_%Y.%m.%d-%H.%M.%S

Regards,
Mike
On 16/02/2018 16:50, Edouard Guigné via samba wrote:
> Hello Dear Samba Users,
>
> I have sucessfully set a samba share on a centos 7 box (samba 4.6.2) 
> and succeeded into make work snapshots (vfs_shadow_copy2 with xfs and 
> lvm).
> The snapshots appears well in windows previous versions.
>
> However, I expected to go further with snapshots and use the options 
> "shadow:snapprefix" and "shadow:delimiter"in order to filter daily, 
> weekly snapshots...
> I did not succeed to do it ; nothing is displayed in windows previous 
> versions when "shadow:snapprefix" and "shadow:delimiter" are set.
>
> My snapshots are with the following format, e.g. for daily snapshots : 
> daily_IPG_%Y.%m.%d-%H.%M.%S
> I tried
> shadow:snapprefix = ^d[A-Za-z0-9]*y$
> shadow:delimiter = _IPG_
> shadow:format = %Y.%m.%d-%H.%M.%S
>
> I find an example at 
> https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_gluster_storage/3.3/html/administration_guide/sect-smb
> and I also notice that there is a bug :
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1329716
> https://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2017-April/207869.html
>
> May you help me to configure snapprefix and delimiter options ?
>
> Best Regards,
> Ed




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