Does Windows file share (samba protocol) have an incremental API?
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I'd like to query a windows share for "all files added/edited/removed since timestamp yyyy/mm/dd hh:mm:ss"
Does such a thing exist?
The only thing I know of is inotify - is this the only option?
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8124617/getting-file-create-notifications-for-cifs-mount-in-linux
inotify is not really what I want because that is push based when I'm looking for something I call poll.
Kind of sounds like what I'm looking for doesn't exist, but I figured I'd ask here to see if anyone has heard of anything.
windows samba inotify
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I'd like to query a windows share for "all files added/edited/removed since timestamp yyyy/mm/dd hh:mm:ss"
Does such a thing exist?
The only thing I know of is inotify - is this the only option?
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8124617/getting-file-create-notifications-for-cifs-mount-in-linux
inotify is not really what I want because that is push based when I'm looking for something I call poll.
Kind of sounds like what I'm looking for doesn't exist, but I figured I'd ask here to see if anyone has heard of anything.
windows samba inotify
asked Nov 27 at 18:17
Nicholas DiPiazza
40539
add a comment |
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up vote
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I'd like to query a windows share for "all files added/edited/removed since timestamp yyyy/mm/dd hh:mm:ss"
Does such a thing exist?
The only thing I know of is inotify - is this the only option?
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8124617/getting-file-create-notifications-for-cifs-mount-in-linux
inotify is not really what I want because that is push based when I'm looking for something I call poll.
Kind of sounds like what I'm looking for doesn't exist, but I figured I'd ask here to see if anyone has heard of anything.
windows samba inotify
asked Nov 27 at 18:17
Nicholas DiPiazza
40539
I'd like to query a windows share for "all files added/edited/removed since timestamp yyyy/mm/dd hh:mm:ss"
Does such a thing exist?
The only thing I know of is inotify - is this the only option?
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8124617/getting-file-create-notifications-for-cifs-mount-in-linux
inotify is not really what I want because that is push based when I'm looking for something I call poll.
Kind of sounds like what I'm looking for doesn't exist, but I figured I'd ask here to see if anyone has heard of anything.
windows samba inotify
windows samba inotify
asked Nov 27 at 18:17
Nicholas DiPiazza
40539
asked Nov 27 at 18:17
Nicholas DiPiazza
40539
asked Nov 27 at 18:17
Nicholas DiPiazza
40539
asked Nov 27 at 18:17
Nicholas DiPiazza
40539
asked Nov 27 at 18:17
Nicholas DiPiazza
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40539
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Apparently no.
Windows itself (through local disk access) would offer the USN journal, which has the ability to query all changes since a specific journal entry index (you would then store the 'current' index along with every backup). However, this is not available via SMB, according to MS-SMB appendix A section 136:
Windows does not support USN journal calls because they require a volume handle. The following USN journal calls are also failed with STATUS_NOT_SUPPORTED.
FSCTL_READ_USN_JOURNAL, FSCTL_CREATE_USN_JOURNAL, FSCTL_QUERY_USN_JOURNAL, FSCTL_DELETE_USN_JOURNAL, FSCTL_ENUM_USN_DATA
You can also dig through the other SMB messages documented in MS-SMB or MS-SMB2 (section 2). I could not find any messages which would search for files in any way except for enumerating a single directory. (In any case this would be somewhat unusual for a filesystem protocol to have...)
answered Nov 27 at 18:35
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excellent - theUSN journalmight be just what we need. i will look into it
– Nicholas DiPiazza
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1 Answer
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active
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active
oldest
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up vote
1
down vote
accepted
Apparently no.
Windows itself (through local disk access) would offer the USN journal, which has the ability to query all changes since a specific journal entry index (you would then store the 'current' index along with every backup). However, this is not available via SMB, according to MS-SMB appendix A section 136:
Windows does not support USN journal calls because they require a volume handle. The following USN journal calls are also failed with STATUS_NOT_SUPPORTED.
FSCTL_READ_USN_JOURNAL, FSCTL_CREATE_USN_JOURNAL, FSCTL_QUERY_USN_JOURNAL, FSCTL_DELETE_USN_JOURNAL, FSCTL_ENUM_USN_DATA
You can also dig through the other SMB messages documented in MS-SMB or MS-SMB2 (section 2). I could not find any messages which would search for files in any way except for enumerating a single directory. (In any case this would be somewhat unusual for a filesystem protocol to have...)
answered Nov 27 at 18:35
grawity
230k35483542
excellent - theUSN journalmight be just what we need. i will look into it
– Nicholas DiPiazza
Nov 27 at 20:20
add a comment |
up vote
1
down vote
accepted
Apparently no.
Windows itself (through local disk access) would offer the USN journal, which has the ability to query all changes since a specific journal entry index (you would then store the 'current' index along with every backup). However, this is not available via SMB, according to MS-SMB appendix A section 136:
Windows does not support USN journal calls because they require a volume handle. The following USN journal calls are also failed with STATUS_NOT_SUPPORTED.
FSCTL_READ_USN_JOURNAL, FSCTL_CREATE_USN_JOURNAL, FSCTL_QUERY_USN_JOURNAL, FSCTL_DELETE_USN_JOURNAL, FSCTL_ENUM_USN_DATA
You can also dig through the other SMB messages documented in MS-SMB or MS-SMB2 (section 2). I could not find any messages which would search for files in any way except for enumerating a single directory. (In any case this would be somewhat unusual for a filesystem protocol to have...)
answered Nov 27 at 18:35
grawity
230k35483542
excellent - theUSN journalmight be just what we need. i will look into it
– Nicholas DiPiazza
Nov 27 at 20:20
add a comment |
up vote
1
down vote
accepted
up vote
1
down vote
accepted
Apparently no.
Windows itself (through local disk access) would offer the USN journal, which has the ability to query all changes since a specific journal entry index (you would then store the 'current' index along with every backup). However, this is not available via SMB, according to MS-SMB appendix A section 136:
Windows does not support USN journal calls because they require a volume handle. The following USN journal calls are also failed with STATUS_NOT_SUPPORTED.
FSCTL_READ_USN_JOURNAL, FSCTL_CREATE_USN_JOURNAL, FSCTL_QUERY_USN_JOURNAL, FSCTL_DELETE_USN_JOURNAL, FSCTL_ENUM_USN_DATA
You can also dig through the other SMB messages documented in MS-SMB or MS-SMB2 (section 2). I could not find any messages which would search for files in any way except for enumerating a single directory. (In any case this would be somewhat unusual for a filesystem protocol to have...)
answered Nov 27 at 18:35
grawity
230k35483542
Apparently no.
Windows itself (through local disk access) would offer the USN journal, which has the ability to query all changes since a specific journal entry index (you would then store the 'current' index along with every backup). However, this is not available via SMB, according to MS-SMB appendix A section 136:
Windows does not support USN journal calls because they require a volume handle. The following USN journal calls are also failed with STATUS_NOT_SUPPORTED.
FSCTL_READ_USN_JOURNAL, FSCTL_CREATE_USN_JOURNAL, FSCTL_QUERY_USN_JOURNAL, FSCTL_DELETE_USN_JOURNAL, FSCTL_ENUM_USN_DATA
You can also dig through the other SMB messages documented in MS-SMB or MS-SMB2 (section 2). I could not find any messages which would search for files in any way except for enumerating a single directory. (In any case this would be somewhat unusual for a filesystem protocol to have...)
answered Nov 27 at 18:35
grawity
230k35483542
answered Nov 27 at 18:35
grawity
230k35483542
answered Nov 27 at 18:35
grawity
230k35483542
answered Nov 27 at 18:35
grawity
230k35483542
230k35483542
excellent - theUSN journalmight be just what we need. i will look into it
– Nicholas DiPiazza
Nov 27 at 20:20
add a comment |
excellent - theUSN journalmight be just what we need. i will look into it
– Nicholas DiPiazza
Nov 27 at 20:20
excellent - the
USN journal might be just what we need. i will look into it– Nicholas DiPiazza
Nov 27 at 20:20
excellent - the
USN journal might be just what we need. i will look into it– Nicholas DiPiazza
Nov 27 at 20:20
add a comment |
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