I'm setting up Ubuntu server with Samba. The file system is BTRFS and I can't seem to get Windows to see the previous versions from the snapshots.
My smb.conf has this for the share:
[Backup]
path = /mnt/pool1/backup
comment = Share for backups
writeable = yes
delete readonly = yes
browseable = yes
vfs object = recycle shadow_copy2
recycle:repository = /mnt/pool1/backup/.recycle/%U
recycle:touch = Yes
recycle:keeptree = Yes
recycle:versions = Yes
recycle:noversions = *.tmp,*.temp,*.o,*.obj,*.TMP,*.TEMP
recycle:exclude = *.tmp,*.temp,*.o,*.obj,*.TMP,*.TEMP
recycle:excludedir = /.recycle,/tmp,/temp,/TMP,/TEMP
shadow:snapdir = /mnt/pool1/snapshots/backup
shadow:basedir = /mnt/pool1/backup
shadow:sort = desc
shadow:format = GMT-%Y.%m.%d-%H.%M.%S
The directory structure is as follows: the BTRFS volume is mounted at /mnt/pool1 and the shares and snapshot directory are at this level:
ll /mnt/pool1
total 20
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 98 Jul 14 09:14 ./
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Jul 14 09:13 ../
drwxrwxr-x 1 root users 74 Jul 14 11:28 backup/
drwxrwxr-x 1 root users 0 Jul 13 16:50 docker/
drwxrwxr-x 1 root users 0 Jul 13 16:49 homes/
drwxrwxr-x 1 root users 0 Jul 13 16:51 install/
drwxrwxr-x 1 root users 0 Jul 13 16:51 media/
drwxrwxr-x 1 root users 80 Jul 13 16:58 snapshots/
drwxrwxr-x 1 root users 0 Jul 13 16:51 timemachine/
ll /mnt/pool1/snapshots
total 16
drwxrwxr-x 1 root users 80 Jul 13 16:58 ./
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 98 Jul 14 09:14 ../
drwxrwxr-x 1 root users 184 Jul 14 11:55 backup/
drwxrwxr-x 1 root users 0 Jul 13 16:58 docker/
drwxrwxr-x 1 root users 0 Jul 13 16:58 homes/
drwxrwxr-x 1 root users 0 Jul 13 16:58 install/
drwxrwxr-x 1 root users 0 Jul 13 16:58 media/
drwxrwxr-x 1 root users 0 Jul 13 16:58 timemachine/
The structure in use is that the snapshots directory has a sub-directory per share. You can see the file names on the snapshots I already have:
tree -a
.
├── backup
│ ├── .recycle
│ │ └── ubuntu
│ │ └── File from windows - Copy.txt
│ ├── File from windows.txt
│ └── test.txt
├── docker
├── homes
├── install
├── media
├── snapshots
│ ├── backup
│ │ ├── GMT-2023.07.14-09.19.31
│ │ │ └── test.txt
│ │ ├── GMT-2023.07.14-09.30.57
│ │ │ └── test.txt
│ │ ├── GMT-2023.07.14-09.57.41
│ │ │ └── test.txt
│ │ └── GMT-2023.07.14-10.48.31
│ │ └── test.txt
│ ├── docker
│ ├── homes
│ ├── install
│ ├── media
│ └── timemachine
└── timemachine
I can find nothing in the logs to help investigate this and there doesn't seem to be any way to diagnose what the issue from the server side. Can anyone suggest what might be wrong here please or how I can get more diagnostic information?
Many thanks, Arthur