Hello all,
I wanted to make this post about an issue I was having in TrueNAS. I don't know if this is a bug or expected but the version I'm on currently is 13.0-U6.1.
I have 4 pools, each pool has it's on SMB share, today I noticed all but 1 I could see previous versions of folders within Windows explorer. I started doing some searching on the forums, some talked about stopping/starting SMB service, re-creating the periodic snapshot task, disabling "enable shadow copies" on the SMB share and stopping/starting SMB services, none of that solved my issue. Because 3 of my other SMB shares were on different datasets and all their SMB share settings/ACL permissions all looked the same for the most part, I then started comparing each dataset and found a difference! So in the 3 datasets with SMB shares that were showing me previous versions in Windows, they all had the "Snapshot directory" set to Invisible but the one that wasn't showing me shadow copies in Windows previous versions had its set to "Visible", so I changed it to "Invisible" then stopped and started SMB and viola, I can now see the shadow copies in Windows previous versions.
So if you have "Enable Shadow Copies" enabled on your (Windows Shares (SMB) in TrueNAS and still can't see previous versions in Windows, then check your dataset and see what "Snapshot Directory" is set to, because it apparently needs to be set to "Invisible", this may be by design and I just never noticed it before
Just wanted to put this out there in case anyone had the same issue I had because I didn't find any posts about this specific switch as being the cause.
Cheers!
I wanted to make this post about an issue I was having in TrueNAS. I don't know if this is a bug or expected but the version I'm on currently is 13.0-U6.1.
I have 4 pools, each pool has it's on SMB share, today I noticed all but 1 I could see previous versions of folders within Windows explorer. I started doing some searching on the forums, some talked about stopping/starting SMB service, re-creating the periodic snapshot task, disabling "enable shadow copies" on the SMB share and stopping/starting SMB services, none of that solved my issue. Because 3 of my other SMB shares were on different datasets and all their SMB share settings/ACL permissions all looked the same for the most part, I then started comparing each dataset and found a difference! So in the 3 datasets with SMB shares that were showing me previous versions in Windows, they all had the "Snapshot directory" set to Invisible but the one that wasn't showing me shadow copies in Windows previous versions had its set to "Visible", so I changed it to "Invisible" then stopped and started SMB and viola, I can now see the shadow copies in Windows previous versions.
So if you have "Enable Shadow Copies" enabled on your (Windows Shares (SMB) in TrueNAS and still can't see previous versions in Windows, then check your dataset and see what "Snapshot Directory" is set to, because it apparently needs to be set to "Invisible", this may be by design and I just never noticed it before
Just wanted to put this out there in case anyone had the same issue I had because I didn't find any posts about this specific switch as being the cause.
Cheers!
