Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Thu, 31 Mar 2016 02:52:25 +0200
From:      Dennis Steinkamp <dennis@lightandshadow.tv>
To:        Brandon J.Wandersee <brandon.wandersee@gmail.com>
Cc:        <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD ZFS snapshots and "previous versions"
Message-ID:  <56FC74C9.3090800@lightandshadow.tv>
In-Reply-To: <864mbnvee9.fsf@WorkBox.Home>
References:  <CABnVG=eYEzGamSMN6CZYJhRLfjry6cQVq=MsJaPShO_WeFwttA@mail.gmail.com> <56FBA0C2.3080109@lightandshadow.tv> <864mbnvee9.fsf@WorkBox.Home>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
I probably just didn`t explain it good enough.
Thank you guys for your help, i get back to you if i can`t get it to 
work for some reason.

Bye

Dennis


Am 30.03.2016 um 23:34 schrieb Brandon J.Wandersee:
> Dennis Steinkamp writes:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> exactly, this is what i wanted to do.
>> Thank you (all) very much for your help. :)
>> Regards
>>
>> Dennis
>>
>> Am 30.03.2016 um 11:31 schrieb Gabor Radnai:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> If I understand correctly OP wants to use Windows feature called 'Previous
>>> Version' off from BSD filer.
>>> This can be done on FreeBSD + Samba4 adding followings to smb4.conf:
>>>
>>>           vfs objects = shadow_copy2
>>>           shadow:format       = %Y-%m-%d_%H.%M.%S--1h
>>>           shadow:sort         = desc
>>>           shadow:mountpoint   = <path-to-share>
>>>           shadow:snapdir      = .zfs/snapshot
>>>           shadow:localtime    = yes
>>>
>>> format is customizable and zfs snapshot should be aligned accordingly
>>> obviously.
>>>
>>> Hope it helps.
> Ah, I see. I jumped to the conclusion you wanted a web interface because
> I thought you wanted to allow users to directly control ZFS filesystems,
> which isn't possible through Windows. I didn't even know "shadow copy"
> was a thing.
>




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?56FC74C9.3090800>