FreeBSD ZFS snapshots and "previous versions"

[Alexander Moisseev]

On 30.03.2016 12:31, Gabor Radnai wrote:
> 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.
> _______________________________________________

FYI It's broken in Samba 4.1 and newer:
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11658