FreeBSD ZFS snapshots and "previous versions"

[Dennis Steinkamp]

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.
>