[Samba] vfs_snapper

[Stefan G. Weichinger]

Am 20.06.24 um 17:51 schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger via samba:

> So my alternative might be dropping snapper and do the btrfs-snapshots 
> plus the rotation etc with self-written (=copied) scripts and timers.
> 
> vfs_shadow_copy2 worked in my tests, I only switched to vfs_snapper 
> because it looked promising to have all the rotation and cleanup of 
> snapshots done by snapper (nicely configured in one place).
> 
> Displaying the snapper-snapshots via vfs_shadow_copy2 doesn't work afai 
> see: the naming doesn't match etc

Or we stay with snapper for doing snapshots ... and skip using 
vfs-modules for that "previous versions" feature in Windows.

Sharing ".snapshots" as separate readonly samba-share for admins only 
worked for years also (then based on rsnapshot).

Maybe vfs_snapper gets fixed some day, I can't tell how many work the 
needed fixes are.