<div dir="ltr">While I haven't used QNAP, I use their competitor Synology (in particular, the DS412+), which I believe has something similar to what you want, but just as you did with QNAP, I'm getting conflicting messages on the Synology side of the internet as well:<br><br><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:24px">Synology Snapshot Manager software plugin for Windows Server allows you to create application-consistent snapshots in DSM. For Windows environment, you can install Synology Snapshot Manager for Windows Server. After installation, when a snapshot is triggered on DSM, Synology Snapshot Manager will use the Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) technology to produce consistent point-in-time copies of data. Synology Snapshot Manager for Windows Server also supports performing snapshots when triggered by 3rd party software via VSS.</span><br><div><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:24px"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:24px">(via </span><font color="#444444" face="Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:24px"><a href="https://www.synology.com/en-us/releaseNote/Snapshot%20Manager%20for%20Windows">https://www.synology.com/en-us/releaseNote/Snapshot%20Manager%20for%20Windows</a>)</span></font></div><div><font color="#444444" face="Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:24px"><br></span></font></div><div><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:24px">There's also some talk of snapshot as it pertains to vSphere and Hyper-V, which sounds to me like the ability to take a snapshot of an entire VM. I don't think that this is what you wanted, but perhaps this is a possible cause of the confusion you're seeing online.</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:24px"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:24px"><br></span></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, 8 May 2015 at 22:11 Paul Nijjar <<a href="mailto:paul_nijjar@yahoo.ca">paul_nijjar@yahoo.ca</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
This might be offtopic, but QNAP NAS boxes appear to run some form of<br>
Linux, so I am hoping that some people on the mailing list have some<br>
familiarity with them. I am involved in researching these for a<br>
potential purchase, and I have a bunch of questions.<br>
<br>
The first question has to do with file snapshotting. Basically, the<br>
device makes previous versions of files available, that can be<br>
restored by end users (for Windows, this might be done using the<br>
"Previous Versions" tab of an item properties, or there might be some<br>
way to navigate to previous versions in the NAS web interface). Does<br>
anybody know whether QNAP devices support this? I am getting<br>
conflicting and confusing answers on the internet.<br>
<br>
- Paul<br>
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