hi,
thanks for your answers!!!
we have ~500 users and currently i don´t have ambitions to work around
this problem with symlinks. it´s not too urgent that i could not wait
until your improvements :)
if there´s a new release please let us know so we can test it.
thanks again!
micha
Ed Plese wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 12:35:12PM -0600, James A. Dinkel wrote:
>>> i was able to successfully run vfs_shadow on a samba share with win xp
>>> shadow copy client. but i think it?s currently not implemented that one
>>> could export [homes] with this vfs object, because AFAIK each @GMT-snap
>>> has to resist directly under the samba share. but [homes] is a virtual
>>> share representing different shares (depending on users).
>>>
>>> has anybody hints about using vfs_shadow with [homes]?
>
>> I would like to find a good answer to this myself. For now, my solution has
>> been to share the root of all the homes shares and give access to
>> administrators only. For instance, all my homes are under /export/homes/
>> and then a folder for each user. I share the /export/homes folder and there
>> is a @GMT- symlink in there to the snapshot. This way at least
>> administrators can access that share and use the Previous Versions Client to
>> retrieve files.
>>
>> My solution does not allow users to retrieve their own files though, which I
>> would like for it to do.
>
> As it is now, you can get this to work by creating symlinks to the
> snapshots under each user's home directory. So for each snapshot and
> user do something like:
>
> # ls -s /mnt/snapshots/snap1/user1 /home/user1/@GMT-2003.08.05-12.00.00
>
> This gets a bit cumbersome with large numbers of users and snapshots.
> I've working on some enhancements to the shadow_copy module to address
> this.
>
>
> Ed Plese
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