[Samba] vfs_snapper

[Stefan G. Weichinger]

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