Pete Geenhuizen wrote at about 06:09:04 -0400 on Wednesday, July 3, 2019:
> 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
>
Is /home on a different file system from /?
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