Vfs shadow copy

[DarylLugue]

Hi, i am trying to make network file server using ubuntu server I would like to make it with shadow copy. Can anyone help me with this? I have tried so many option and search so many techniques in google but all are not working for me.

[Mikensan]

You need a way to "snapshot" your files and then present those snapshots to windows. FreeNAS does this using ZFS - which OpenZFS supports. I haven't tested it, but it "should" work. Sadly if you already have data this may not be an option, as by default Linux uses EXT.