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ScottChapman's avatar
ScottChapman
Apprentice
Jan 03, 2014

OS6 - Snapshots for home directories?

I just read that snapshots are not supported for home directories, not sure why.

So, what's a reasonable strategy then if i want to provide this obvious level of safety for my users?

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  • Yea, I guess I understood that it isn't supported. My real question was what are folks doing in the interim.

    The obvious option would be to NOT use home directories and instead create shares for each user owned by that user and have them support snapshots.

    Was just curious if there were other approaches?
  • StephenB's avatar
    StephenB
    Guru - Experienced User
    With SSH you could delete the user's home folder, and then re-create it as a subvolume. But you would also need to browse the snapshots with ssh. So I think the obvious option is better.

    However, even there you would need to browse the snapshots for them, unless you give everyone the admin password.

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