Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au> writes:
I believe that Samba can be integrated with various snapshot schemes. Last time I did Google searches for such things I saw some documentation about making Samba work with ZFS snapshots and I presume that BTRFS wouldn't be any more difficult (you could make BTRFS use the same directory names as ZFS for snapshots).
It is nearly trivial to export rsnapshot backups as read-only snapshots over samba as "shadow copies", which Windows Explorer can then see natively in the context menu.
I can dig up details if anyone's interested.
I remember installing one of the Linux NAS distributions (openfiler maybe?) many many years ago and found that it did all of this automatically which impressed me greatly at the time! James