[Samba] shadow_copy2 working only on dirs?

David Disseldorp ddiss at samba.org
Tue Apr 18 15:05:09 UTC 2023


Hi Alexander,

On Mon, 17 Apr 2023 08:19:59 +0200, Alexander Harm || ApfelQ via samba wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I did setup shadow_copy2 with BTRFS snapshots. While this works fine for directories Windows does not show any previous versions for files. I couldn’t find anything regarding this, only one other using complaining about this in the OMV forums. Is this expected behaviour?

Assuming you're talking about the Windows Explorer Previous Versions UI,
one thing to note is that only snapshots with unique file modification
times will be shown in the previous versions list. Does it work as
expected if you modify the file after each snapshot?

Cheers, David



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