I know I have asked a billion questions in the last week or two, and I apologize for that - but my limited knowledge of Linux + my desire to have "more than vanilla" compells me to keep asking!

 

So I've been toying with the need/desire to get shadow copies - the gee whiz feature in Windows and even Mac via time machine.

 

after some research, I found that Samba does have this capability, and the native windows "restore previous versions" -aka shadow copy client- can expose these.

 

The question to the gurus here, is would this break anything that UnRaid does?

 

Am I the only Nut that would like this as part of the UnRaid server's job?

 

ReF: http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/VFS.html#id2651694

 

Thanks

I know I have asked a billion questions in the last week or two, and I apologize for that - but my limited knowledge of Linux + my desire to have "more than vanilla" compells me to keep asking!

 

So I've been toying with the need/desire to get shadow copies - the gee whiz feature in Windows and even Mac via time machine.

 

after some research, I found that Samba does have this capability, and the native windows "restore previous versions" -aka shadow copy client- can expose these.

 

The question to the gurus here, is would this break anything that UnRaid does?

 

Am I the only Nut that would like this as part of the UnRaid server's job?

 

ReF: http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/VFS.html#id2651694

 

Thanks

According to the link you provided:

he shadow_copy VFS module requires some underlying file system setup with some sort of Logical Volume Manager (LVM) such as LVM1, LVM2, or EVMS

 

unRAID does not have a Logical Volume Manager.  Therefore, it does not have the ability to use the feature of samba you are describing.

meant to reply - thanks Joe... still trying to figure out someway to do this.

 

I've read about unraid supporting ntfs drives with the ntsf-3g driver. clearly I need to do more research, but I wonder if that might be a more viable alternative?

 

thanks again