mervincm

Thank you for the links I was thinking that since the vast majority of desktops (admittedly less in this community) use Windows, and since "Previous Versions" functionality for SMB shares has been there by default for ~ 15 years it has to be considered the Industry standard when it comes to facilitating access to data in snapshots. Snapshots are surely not an area of strength for unraid, so It's not fair to expect TrueNas or Synology type of experience, thus my investigation into what is actually required and my appreciation for community developers that make things 1 step more straight forward.

Thanks for the link. I am searching and playing with it. This is something home NAS solutions have that just works by default, so I imagine unraid users / team have found a way. Most users still have Windows desktops. Previous versions is a decade old solution to remove access barriers to snapshot copies. This pattern shouldn’t be an uphill battle, I just need to find it.

I have 3x4TB array devices and a single SSDpool device as a cache. My disk1/2 and cache are configured BTRFS I installed the plugin above and created snaps on all three disks at the root. I can browse to the SMB share via windows, but there is no previous versions detected by windows. I must be missing something.

Are these snaps comatible with Windows previous versions when viewed via SMB share? I see snaps, and I can browse the share, but Windows doesnt see any previous versions.

Hmmm this is getting closer to a possible solution then. Thank you. I will see what I have for spare parts to do a proof of concept.

So, let’s say I use BTRFS for each individual disk in my unraid style volume I cron’d a job to take a daily snapshot on each disk at the same time. I created a share for media and included all those disks. Writing to that share would result in files distributed among those disks, but I wouldn’t know it because unraid shows An aggregate view Would I see a similar aggregate view inside the previous version view into that share? I realize I can try this out for myself, but I hope I am still in the area that is not unheard of with unraid

I am coming from a Synology / Xpenology set of NAS, have been evaluating TrueNAS scale and really like what unraid has to offer. I believe the unraid style of aggregate volumes with parity makes sense for me for media volumes. That said I rely on BTRFS snapshots and the previous volumes feature it enabled in windows 10. I don't have complicated snapshot requirements, and could live with something simple say one snap a day, keep the last 7 days worth before they are auto purged. Is something like this possible with addins or even a little command line configuration? I wouldn't want something that was so far out of best practices that a simple patching would likely endanger my data / functionality