FreeBSD ZFS snapshots and "previous versions"

Dennis Steinkamp dennis at lightandshadow.tv
Wed Mar 30 09:48:06 UTC 2016


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.
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