[Samba] Access to ShadowCopy snapshots from linux-side

Norbert Hanke norbert.hanke at gmx.ch
Thu Jan 23 22:12:35 UTC 2025


Hi Anton,

You can try to access snapshot directories directly.

If \\server\share points to a ZFS filesystem you will have snapshots
inside \\server\share\.zfs\snapshot , one directory per snapshot.

In my case this works, server is Truenas. Permissions are the same as at
that time when the snapshot was created.

regards,
Norbert

On 1/23/2025 1:16 PM, Anton Shevtsov via samba wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have samba fs server with zfs and shadow_copy2.
>
> Windows clients can see previouse version via File Explorer. Thay have
> not any problems, all works fine.
>
> But linux client have a problem.
>
> I dont know any GUI file explorers with accessing shadow copy feature
> (thunar, caja, dolphin, ...)
>
> May be CLI tools?
>
> smbinfo list-snapshots it's right way?
>
> smbinfo list-snapshots \\server\share ?
>
> smbinfo list-snapshots smb:\\server\share ?
>
> Not working anything..
>



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