[Samba] vfs_snapper
Stefan G. Weichinger
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Sat Jun 22 07:29:01 UTC 2024
Am 21.06.24 um 09:29 schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger via samba:
> 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.
how MUCH work ... pardon my french
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