Pete Geenhuizen wrote at about 12:43:58 -0400 on Thursday, July 4, 2019:
>
>
> On 07/04/2019 11:27 AM, backu...@kosowsky.org wrote:
> > 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 /?
> >
> Yes and was also when I was running V3
>
Well, the --one-file-system argument is set by default in
$Conf{RsyncArgs}. Unless you deleted it, rsync will only backup the
specific file systems that you list -- in your case just '/'
Rather than removing the --one-file-system argument, I think its
cleaner and safer to add a separate share for each file system.
In your case, that will mean adding the share name to
$Conf{RsyncShareName} and adding a corresponding stanza to your
rsyncd.conf file.
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