samba - Apr 2014 - VFs recycle, what about a trigger to delete files after xxxx!?

Dear all,

I am  working with vfs recycle and it is a real great thing.
But something I missed all the years is a param like :
recycle:purge=MAXDAYS. (where MAXDAYS is, Age of which files and directories
are stored
In the recycle before they are purged)
I do this with my own scripts but it would be a great feature for me as
admin to set this param
without the need of scripting  myself.



EDV Daniel M?ller

Leitung EDV
Tropenklinik Paul-Lechler-Krankenhaus
Paul-Lechler-Str. 24
72076 T?bingen 
Tel.: 07071/206-463, Fax: 07071/206-499
eMail: mueller at tropenklinik.de
Internet: www.tropenklinik.de

is it normal that vfs recycle wont put file inside container when its
moved and not deleted?
when files is deleted vfs recycle copy it to 'bin' but when someone move
folders/files it dont act.

smb.conf section for vfs looks like this:
vfs objects = recycle
recycle:priority = NOTICE
recycle:repository = .bin
recycle:directory_mode = 0777
recycle:subdir_mode = 0777
recycle:keeptree = true
recycle:versions = true
recycle:touch = true
recycle:minsize = 1

Hi Daniel,

On Tue, 15 Apr 2014 12:32:07 +0200, Daniel M?ller wrote:
> I am  working with vfs recycle and it is a real great thing.
> But something I missed all the years is a param like :
> recycle:purge=MAXDAYS. (where MAXDAYS is, Age of which files and
directories
> are stored
> In the recycle before they are purged)
> I do this with my own scripts but it would be a great feature for me as
> admin to set this param
> without the need of scripting  myself.
Sounds like you're looking for functionality that's normally provided
with device or filesystem snapshots. I'd suggest looking at btrfs, LVM
or Snapper managed snapshots, and the vfs_shadow_copy(2) Samba modules.

Such a setup would have the following benefits over using the
vfs_recycle module:
- COW snapshots are space efficient, so storage of duplicate file data
  can be avoided.
- Users can access/restore previous file versions by right clicking on
  the base file or folder in Explorer, rather than navigating to the
  recycle bin.

Cheers, David