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Larry G. Wapnitsky
Asked: 2012-06-21 04:47:14 +0800 CST

Linux and Window DFS shares - restoring previous versions of files/folders

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I know I can mount DFS shares on my Linux boxes with no issues, but is there a method by which I can access/restore previous versions of folders/files from these DFS shares?

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windows windows-server-2008 dfs-r linux dfs

2 Answers

  1. The previous versions feature relies on "shadow copies", which is a Windows/NTFS feature which allows for the storage of multiple versions of a file. While this is available automatically on the client side for Windows Vista/7, older versions required you to install a "Shadow Copy Client" so that you could view these in Windows Explorer.

    Unfortunately there is no Shadow Copy Client available for non-Windows systems.

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  2. The is an early version of a library to access "volume shadow copies" called libvshadow.

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