VSS support is in our roadmap. Afshin
Ross wrote: > Microsoft's Shadow Copy Client is a free download, and a cracking tool for > recovering previous versions of files: > http://www.berbs.us/archives/images/shadowcopy.jpg > > We were hoping to be able to use it with Samba and ZFS to create a really > good storage solution for our users, with regular ZFS snapshots and simple > end user recovery of files. However, after testing Samba, we're finding the > permission model hard to manage, and I'm not sure it's going to be a viable > solution. > > So instead I had a quick look at the CIFS server. It does looks much better, > and permissions seem to behave exactly as we would expect, but I don't think > it has VSS support. While we can still give users access to the > .zfs/snapshot folder, it's not so easy to use, so I'd like to request VSS > support be added to the CIFS server if possible. > > I think it would be a great feature to add since you already have the > snapshots in place with ZFS, and Microsoft have written the client for you :) > > There's an added benefit in that Microsoft's own snapshot support is awful: > You're limited to 64 snapshots (or 255 I believe if you buy Data Protection > Manager), but you can only specify one schedule. So you either get two days > of hourly snapshots, or a couple of months of daily ones, etc... Even worse, > there's a performance hit each time you take a snapshot, resulting in > Microsoft's official advice of: > "As a best practice, we recommend that you not overlap backup windows with > online maintenance or peak-user demand intervals." > > In contrast, we're planning to use ZFS snapshots to give us 8x 15 minute > snapshots, 24x hourly snapshots, 14x daily, 8x weekly, 12x monthly and 10x > yearly. That's still only 76 snapshots, but it's given us far finer > protection than Microsoft's system and has the potential for us to supply ten > years worth of backups directly to our users. > > This will be protecting all basic documents on our network: CAD drawings, > word documents, spreadsheets, etc. With folder redirection, it will even > cover every users Desktop and My Documents folders. Our approach may be an > extreme case, but the benefits should be applicable to many people. It's > effectively a very low maintenance backup system, with little need for > involvement from IT when a user needs to recover a file. > > If you can add VSS support to the Solaris CIFS server, as far as I'm > concerned, Solaris becomes a better storage solution for windows clients than > any Microsoft offering. > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > storage-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/storage-discuss _______________________________________________ storage-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/storage-discuss
