rinseaid

For anyone trying to set up zfs-auto-snapshot to use Previous Versions on Windows clients: I placed the zfs-auto-snapshot.sh file from https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs-auto-snapshot/blob/master/src/zfs-auto-snapshot.sh in /boot/scripts/zfs-auto-snapshot.sh and made executable with chmod +x zfs-auto-snapshot.sh I found that no matter which way I set the 'localtime' setting in smb.conf, the snapshots were not adjusting to local time and were shown in UTC time. To fix this, I removed the --utc parameter on line 537 of zfs-auto-snapshot.sh to read: DATE=$(date +%F-%H%M) I then created cron entries by creating /boot/config/plugins/custom_cron/zfs-auto-snapshot.cron with the following contents: # zfs-auto-snapshot.sh quarter hourly */15 * * * * /boot/scripts/zfs-auto-snapshot.sh -q -g --label=04 --keep=4 // # zfs-auto-snapshot.sh hourly @hourly ID=zfs-auto-snapshot-hourly /boot/scripts/zfs-auto-snapshot.sh --quiet --syslog --label=00 --keep=24 // # zfs-auto-snapshot.sh daily @daily ID=zfs-auto-snapshot-daily /boot/scripts/zfs-auto-snapshot.sh --quiet --syslog --label=01 --keep=31 // # zfs-auto-snapshot.sh weekly @weekly ID=zfs-auto-snapshot-weekly /boot/scripts/zfs-auto-snapshot.sh --quiet --syslog --label=02 --keep=8 // # zfs-auto-snapshot.sh monthly @monthly ID=zfs-auto-snapshot-monthly /boot/scripts/zfs-auto-snapshot.sh --quiet --syslog --label=03 --keep=12 // Edit: I switched the cron entries to use specific times of day, days of the week, etc. primarily due to the effect of reboots on unRAID's cron handling. I would get inconsistently spaced apart snapshots with the above cron configuration. # zfs-auto-snapshot.sh quarter hourly */15 * * * * /boot/config/scripts/zfs-auto-snapshot.sh -q -g --label=04 --keep=4 // # zfs-auto-snapshot.sh hourly 0 * * * * ID=zfs-auto-snapshot-hourly /boot/config/scripts/zfs-auto-snapshot.sh --quiet --syslog --label=00 --keep=24 // # zfs-auto-snapshot.sh daily 0 0 * * * ID=zfs-auto-snapshot-daily /boot/config/scripts/zfs-auto-snapshot.sh --quiet --syslog --label=01 --keep=31 // # zfs-auto-snapshot.sh weekly 0 0 * * 0 ID=zfs-auto-snapshot-weekly /boot/config/scripts/zfs-auto-snapshot.sh --quiet --syslog --label=02 --keep=8 // # zfs-auto-snapshot.sh monthly 0 0 1 * * ID=zfs-auto-snapshot-monthly /boot/config/scripts/zfs-auto-snapshot.sh --quiet --syslog --label=03 --keep=12 // Run 'update_cron' to immediately enable the custom cron entries. The labels differ from the zfs-auto-snapshot default labels for better compatibility with Samba. For the Samba shares, I placed the below in /boot/config/smb-extra.conf: [data] path = /mnt/zfs/data browseable = yes guest ok = yes writeable = yes read only = no create mask = 0775 directory mask = 0775 vfs objects = shadow_copy2 shadow: snapdir = .zfs/snapshot shadow: sort = desc shadow: format = zfs-auto-snap_%S-%Y-%m-%d-%H%M shadow: localtime = yes Run 'samba reload' to refresh your Samba config. After the first scheduled snapshot is taken, you should now be able to see the snapshots in the Previous Versions dialog on a connected Windows client. You'll need to modify this with your desired snapshot intervals, retention, and path names. This configuration is working well for me. I hope this helps anyone else out there trying to get ZFS snapshots working with shadow copy for Windows clients.

Sorry for resurrecting an old thread, but for anyone that may come to this thread from Google, I have used dmacias' great work and adapted for use with Proxmox. I have posted the info to the Proxmox forums here: https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/wake-on-lan-script.32449/#post-160160

Edit: as dmacias notes below, this was posted in the wrong thread, the link I provided for Proxmox is a WoL proxy which is not the purpose of the plugin in this thread. dmacias, thank you very much for this! I hope you don't mind, but I have modified the code for use with Proxmox and created a quick guide for its usage here: https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/wake-on-lan-script.32449/#post-160160