[Info-vax] Is there a way to enabling versioning in Samba

John E. Malmberg wb8tyw at qsl.net_work
Thu Jul 20 21:47:11 EDT 2017


On 7/20/2017 6:35 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 7/20/2017 5:37 PM, don.zong at gmail.com wrote:
>> My impression with Samba is that the file is always overridden, no
>> versioning. revision number might change though. Wondering if there
>> is a way to enable versioning in Samba - so that whenever there is a
>> change in the file, it will create a new file with a new version.
> 
> I doubt it.
> 
> But if such a feature existed then how would the clients get to the
> old versions?

You can represent past versions with a (n) suffix, like some Microsoft 
programs do.  I would expect though that the additional filename 
translation may slow Samba on VMS down.

Regards,
-John
wb8tyw at qsl.net_work




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