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

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Den 2017-07-21 kl. 14:30, skrev Craig A. Berry:
> On 7/21/17 3:56 AM, Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote:
>> Den 2017-07-21 kl. 05:41, skrev Craig A. Berry:
>>> On 7/20/17 10:31 PM, David Froble wrote:
>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>> My impression is that you're asking the wrong question.
>>>>
>>>> When using Samba, you're accessing files on a VMS system from an OS 
>>>> that doesn't have versioning in it's file system. 
>>>
>>> How do you know that? Wouldn't he likely be using Windows, which does
>>> have file versions? See, for example:
>>>
>>> <https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms646981(v=vs.85).aspx> 
>>>
>>
>> But that is an file attribute, not part of the filename specification.
>> More like the link data in a VMS EXE file, than the VMS file version.
> 
> Yes, sorry, that link isn't to the feature I was thinking of. I think
> it's called file history or something. In any case, recent releases of
> Windows do have a sort of file versioning. The semantics are likely a
> lot different (I've never used it) but there are certainly ways of
> maintaining multiple versions of files.
> 

The only hit is on a feature called "File History". But that is based
on saving files in "backups" or in "system restore" save points.

The default is to save a copy once a day. So if you update more
frequent than that, you will not get every "version" saved.

In no case does it mean that you have concurrent access to muliple
versions of the same file. You use the current file, or you can
restore on older file (that then replaces the current file, if not
restored to a different directory).

https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/11130/restore-previous-versions-of-files-in-every-edition-of-windows-7/

I would not call this to "maintain multiple versions of files". :-)



>>> Dunno if it's in SMB, much less Samba.
>>
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