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[LVM] provides a method for taking a snapshot of a volume; it is these snapshots that will be shared and provided to Windows clients as shadow copies. [XFS] supports freezing a file system, buffering writes to it until it is thawed again. However, this [doesn't actually work|http://oss.sgi.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=400] right now. Many filesystems in the kernel support [waiting until the filesystem is consistent before taking a snapshot|http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/snapshotintro.html] - you might wish to research this in more detail, but for this HOWTO we will use XFS.
!Steps
-1. Join a Windows domain, if you need to. I followed [this howto|http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=91510], which should be rolled into our wiki, which is a huge mess of conflicting information about joining Windows domains that really needs some Aristotle love.
+1. Join a Windows domain, if you need to. I followed [this howto|http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=91510], which should be rolled into our wiki, which is a huge mess of conflicting information about joining Windows domains that really needs some [
Aristotle|AristotlePagaltzis]
love.
It's always handy to keep in time with your Windows network, so install ntp-simple and edit /etc/ntp.conf to parent off your AD server.
2. Set up a Samba share to the root of your LVM volume. Unfortunately, shadow copies don't work if you share a directory inside the volume. You can use "deep mounting" on Windows 2000 clients (net use Z: \\server\share\directory\directory) if you wish to get around this.
