Hi there, On Mon, 21 Mar 2022, chiel wrote:
... a few directories are not included ... One of these directories is "/var/lib/automysqlbackup". Which is created after installing "automysqlbackup" which creates auto backup's mysql db's. This folder has the following rights: root@server-123:/var/lib/automysqlbackup# ls -allh total 24K drwxr-x---? 6 root root 4.0K Mar 20 12:59 . ...
Although it seems to me a little off the wall, I'll assume - for the purpose of this thread - that you really *do* want BackupPC to back up a bunch of backup files. I would normally exclude such things - and I'd also put them on a different box. As you have it set up, the directory '/var/lib/automysqlbackup' is only readable by user 'root' or by a user which is a member of the group 'root'. This means that, if a user which is *not* root and *not* in the root group, unless the user knows the names of directories/files under that directory and *additionally* has read access to them, that user cannot read the directories/files contained within.
drwxr-xr-x? 3 root root 4.0K Mar 14 10:50 daily drwxr-xr-x? 2 root root 4.0K Mar 14 10:50 monthly drwxr-xr-x? 3 root root 4.0K Mar 14 10:50 weekly
The 'backuppc' user could read the contents of the directories daily, monthly and weekly - but note that the directory content is things like the names of the files contained in the directories, not the content of the files themselves - to read the contents of the files the files themselves (not their containing directories) must have the appropriate permissions. So for example if you explicity ask BackupPC to back up /var/lib/automysqlbackup/daily /var/lib/automysqlbackup/monthly /var/lib/automysqlbackup/weekly by putting those paths in your configuration (assuming that the files within those directories are readable by BackupPC) there would be no problem for BackupPC to back them up.
When backuppc does a full backup it says that the backup has completed successfully. However when I check this directory backuppc has created the directory but says: The directory /var/lib/aytomysqlbackup is empty
This message is possibly misleading.
On the client machine (Ubuntu 20.04.4) I used "sudo visudo" to edit the /etc/sudoers file and added the following: # Allow backuppc to run rsync as root backuppc ALL=NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/rsync
Just because something is possible it doesn't necessarily mean that it actually happens. You would also need to get BackupPC to read the directories and run rsync (or whatever transfer utility) as user root. Perhaps you haven't done one or both of those things.
Furthermore I changed authorized_keys to add a couple of options to it: no-port-forwarding,no-X11-forwarding,no-agent-forwarding,no-pty ssh-rsa XXXXXXXXXX backuppc@backup
Why? Without some investigation I'm afraid that I have no idea what effects, if any, this will have on your BackupPC setup.
So the questions is why is that particular directory not being backed up?
Very likely the directory permissions. If you really need to back up the backups, why not just give, to the automysqlbackup directory, read permission for the backuppc user's group? -- 73, Ged. _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/wiki Project: https://backuppc.github.io/backuppc/
