On Mar 19, 2010, at 9:25 PM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: > > > ZFS+CIFS even provides > > > Windows Volume Shadow Services so that Windows users can do this on > > > their own. > > > > I'll need to look into that, when I get a moment. Not familiar with > > Windows Volume Shadow Services, but having people at home able to do > > this > > directly seems useful. > > Even in a fully supported, all-MS environment, I’ve found the support for > “Previous Versions” is spotty and sort of unreliable at best. Not to > mention, I think the user interface is just simply non-intuitive. > > As an alternative, here’s what I do: > ln -s .zfs/snapshot snapshots > > Voila. All Windows or Mac or Linux or whatever users are able to easily > access snapshots.
Clever. Just one minor problem though, you've circumvented the reason why the "snapdir" property defaults to "hidden." This probably won't affect clients that understand symlinks, but IIRC, Windows doesn't. Hopefully, the Windows clients will not try to run backup programs themselves and will rely on server-side backups :-) -- richard ZFS storage and performance consulting at http://www.RichardElling.com ZFS training on deduplication, NexentaStor, and NAS performance Las Vegas, April 29-30, 2010 http://nexenta-vegas.eventbrite.com _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
