Aaron Browne wrote:
Maybe you can go about it a different way and offer a recovery drive to
the users. Rather than using homes for the shadow_copy, which is posing
problems for you, setup another share called recover that points to the
snapshot area. Users can then to browse into their home
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 10:29 PM, Cory Coager [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
I have successfully setup shadow_copy for normal shares on our samba test
server. However, I cannot get it working for the homes share because of its
uniqueness.
Here is the homes share:
[homes]
comment = Home
I'm guessing this patch isn't part of binaries distributed through SLES
which is why it isn't working for me. Thanks for the info.
Aaron Browne wrote:
Take a look on this page.. http://www.edplese.com/samba-with-zfs.html
The 3-paths.patch contains a description of exactly what you are trying
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 11:09 PM, Cory Coager [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
I'm guessing this patch isn't part of binaries distributed through SLES
which is why it isn't working for me. Thanks for the info.
Maybe you can go about it a different way and offer a recovery drive to
the users. Rather
I have successfully setup shadow_copy for normal shares on our samba
test server. However, I cannot get it working for the homes share
because of its uniqueness.
Here is the homes share:
[homes]
comment = Home Directories
read only = No
create mask = 0700
directory
I don't think that will work because homes is dynamic I believe that the
snapshots have to be mounted at the root of the share and homes has the
root of the share at /home/username you have the snapshots mounted at /home
hope this helps
Damien
Cory Coager wrote:
I have successfully setup
So its not possible to use variables for the 'subpath' option?
Damien Dye wrote:
I don't think that will work because homes is dynamic I believe that
the snapshots have to be mounted at the root of the share and homes
has the root of the share at /home/username you have the snapshots
mounted
Cory Coager wrote:
So its not possible to use variables for the 'subpath' option?
Damien Dye wrote:
I don't think that will work because homes is dynamic I believe that
the snapshots have to be mounted at the root of the share and homes
has the root of the share at /home/username you have the
Symlinks do work however, this isn't feasible when you have hundreds of
users.
Scott Lovenberg wrote:
Hrm... could you symlink it to a known, non-variable path? I have
absolutely no idea if that would work, but I figured I'd throw it out
there.
