samba shadow copy

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dillee1

Hello,
Has anyone sucessfully got samba shadow copy service running on FreeBSD? I know Linux-LVM-XFS and FreeBSD-ZFS has some success. Is it possible to get it work with UFS2 snapshot feature? Thank you.
 
I've tried to use this module but without success...
I followed the instruction from the vfs_shadow_copy2 man page which comes with samba but for some reason samba does not see the UFS2 snapshots... probably I am not doing something right :)

Here is the part of the smb.conf to enable the shadow copy module:
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Code: 
[homes]
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   vfs objects = shadow_copy2
   shadow:snapdir = /home/snaphots
   shadow:basedir = /home
Here is the disk layout:
Code: 
/dev/ad0s1a on / (ufs, local, acls)
devfs on /dev (devfs, local, multilabel)
/dev/ad0s1d on /home (ufs, local, soft-updates, acls)

The snapshots are created as described in the freebsd handbook.

I have to mention that I haven't mounted them as a memory disk since I don't see the point of doing this manually or even in cron, coz for me samba has to do it automatically...

What bothers me is this part of the vfs_shadow_copy2 man page:
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Filesystem snapshots must be mounted on specially named directories in order to be recognized by vfs_shadow_copy2. The snapshot mount points must be immediate children of a the directory being shared. The snapshot naming convention is @GMT-YYYY.MM.DD-hh.mm.ss, where:

o YYYY is the 4 digit year

o MM is the 2 digit month

o DD is the 2 digit day

o hh is the 2 digit hour

o mm is the 2 digit minute

o ss is the 2 digit second.


The vfs_shadow_copy2 snapshot naming convention can be produced with the following date(1) command:

TZ=GMT date +@GMT-%Y.%m.%d-%H.%M.%S
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I don't know exactly how to make these mounts... Any help will be greatly appreciated :)
 
I've given it a go and it doesn't seem to work for me either. Any tips from someone who has this running?
 
I'm highly interested in this too but have not yet had much success. If someone gets it working, a comprehensive guide would be fantastic, and earn you a beer.
 
tsarya said:
I've tried to use this module but without success...
I followed the instruction from the vfs_shadow_copy2 man page which comes with samba but for some reason samba does not see the UFS2 snapshots... probably I am not doing something right :)
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I don't think it supports UFS (I could be wrong). I believe it requires ZFS.
 
Weaseal said:
I believe it requires ZFS.
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I'm not even sure about that. I've since tried it on ZFS and couldn't manage to get that working either. The only examples of it working I could find on the net were for solaris, I couldn't find anything on FreeBSD.
 
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