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

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Den 2017-07-21 kl. 15:25, skrev David Froble:
> Craig A. Berry wrote:
>> 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> 
>>
>>
>> Dunno if it's in SMB, much less Samba.
> 
> Interesting reading.  However, while some capability may potentially be 
> there, I sure don't see multiple versions of a file in Windows Explorer.  
> Didn't read all of the info, but, I'm not sure it's the same as VMS file 
> versions?

It is definitely not, as I explained in another post. It is more like
pulling an "old version" from a BACKUP save set. And you must specify
an alternative directory, if you do not want your current file to be
(permanently) over written.