I upgraded BackupPC from V3 to V4 several months ago which went
relatively smoothly.
I have been able to successfully restore system files and presumed that
all was running well. Yesterday I needed to recover a file from my
home. When I went to my home to look at the file I got a permission
denied. Turns out that the restore changed the ownership of my home to
root. I fixed that and when I looked at the restored file it was
several months old which struck me as odd because I had edited the file
a few days ago.
I then browsed my home directory in BackupPC and found that all the
files in my home were several months old, i.e none had been backed up
since I upgraded to V4
As a test I touched a couple of files in my home and then after the next
backup cycle I looked and verified that indeed none of the files that I
had touched were backed up. I looked in the rsync.log file and all that
it is backing up are system files.
When I upgraded to V4 other than making changes to config.pl I didn't
alter anything else.
I guess that in V4 the way permissions are treated for home directories
has changed and I need to alter either config.pl and/or rsyncd.conf to
allow BackupPC to backup my home directory.
This is what is in my rsyncd.conf file, slightly obfuscated
uid = 0
gid = 0
auth users = xxxxxxxxx
secrets file = /etc/rsyncd.secrets
hosts allow = 192.168.XXX.XXX/24
read only = false
[root]
path = /
in config.pl I have
$Conf{RsyncShareName} = [
'root'
];
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Pete
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