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

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Den 2017-07-25 kl. 17:36, skrev Stephen Hoffman:
> On 2017-07-25 12:19:39 +0000, johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk said:
> 
>> Isn't there even an Apple-approved way of achieving the same basic 
>> result? Time Machine, maybe (I don't speak Apple).
> 
> Yes.   macOS with Xcode has integrated support for DVCS including GUI and 
> command-line access, and the file system provides versioning support 
> without exposing the versions directly to the user as entries in the file 
> system, and the default backup mechanism is Time Machine. Time Machine 
> utterly blows away BACKUP for most of the common cases, too.

But the "common cases" are probably quite differnt on a client/desktop,
single user, non-technical user environment, then what you expect on
a server/backend environment.

> There'll be 
> cases that Time Machine doesn't work for, but it's appropriate and useful 
> for a large percentage of folks,...

And they are a very different group of folks from the usual OpenVMS
system managers and the needs they meet in daily work.

I do not see that any reasonable way to compare macOS tools with
OpenVMS tools. Does Apple still sell any server OS environment?