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Snapshot Visibilty and Windows Previous Versions

darraghos — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 13:42:20 GMT

Hi all. Using some CIFS volumes on C-mode 9. I see you have the following options:

Set Snapshot visibilty at volume level
Set Snapshot visibilty at sharelevel
Enable previous versions at share level

Trying to understand who these all interact and what I should expect when the various combinations here?

Re: Snapshot Visibilty and Windows Previous Versions

AlexDawson — Fri, 18 May 2018 02:16:49 GMT

Options 1 and 2 show a "~snapshot" directory either at the root of a share, or the root of volumes inside the share at the point they join via a junction path into the namespace of a SVM - you can then tranverse through that directory to find snapshots and files inside those snapshots.

Option 3 enables integration of the snapshots of a file into the Windows "Previous Versions" tab.

Please let me know if you would like any further clarification on junction paths/volumes/namespaces/shares

Re: Snapshot Visibilty and Windows Previous Versions

darraghos — Fri, 18 May 2018 09:18:23 GMT

Thanks for taking the time to reply! Much appreciated. I think I have the lighbulb on now. So in this example would my expectations be corrrect (was lazy with the HTML 🙂

File System

vol2 - snap visibility enabled

vol1 - snap visibility enabled

ShareA -> /vol1/A [Share snap visibility enabled]

ShareB -> /vol1/B [Share snap visibility disabled]

Junction vol1/B/C - > junction /vol2/A

So if i:

Browse ShareA\ i see ~snapshot?
Browse ShareB\ i don't see ~snapshot?
Browse ShareB\C\ i see snapshot ?

Is this understanding correct?

Re: Snapshot Visibilty and Windows Previous Versions

AlexDawson — Mon, 21 May 2018 02:16:11 GMT

I would encourage you to test it yourself in a test environment if it is very important to your business needs, but that should be the way it works, yes.