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On 09/12/13 09:23, Rob Beard wrote: > > > On 08/12/2013 23:24, bad apple wrote: > >> If you've got Windows boxes then you can set roaming profiles to come >> from a Server 2012/2012r2 machine hosting them on the new ReFS >> filesystem, which is Microsoft's new CoW filesystem. Correct permission >> masks and snapshotting on the backend could natively guard against >> exactly the problem you're worried about, but still no better than your >> existing backups and at the cost of needing Server 2012/r2 (licences are >> expensive, as are the CALs to access them) plus some non-trivial admin >> configuration. >> > > We currently don't use Windows server, all of our servers run Linux, > although being a charity we do get a very big discount on Windows Server > and Exchange, although there is the cost of getting a machine to run it > hence why I'd like to do it on Samba. Even discounted Windows servers can be quite expensive. Especially when you factor in time. Never mind that I wouldn't have the first clue how to even attempt certain things on Windows servers, nor do I know anyone who does. Just about all of the Windows servers I run are virtualbox guests on Linux hosts.
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