Re: [BackupPC-users] Can't access older backups after upgrade

2021-11-04 Thread Norman J. Goldstein
On 2021-11-04 17:00, Anthony Chavez wrote: On 11/4/21 3:09 PM, Norman Goldstein wrote: On 2021-11-04 07:36, Les Mikesell wrote: On Thu, Nov 4, 2021 at 4:16 AM Anthony Chavez wrote: Namely? I use NFS for a lot of things. And apart from an abysmal security model (that can fortunately be harde

Re: [BackupPC-users] Can't access older backups after upgrade

2021-11-04 Thread Anthony Chavez
Regarding my situation, here's the short version at this point: I've metadata but no data. I've no idea how it happened, but something obviously did, somewhere in here: oldhost% zfs send | ssh backuphost zfs recv backuphost% zfs send | ssh newhost zfs recv newhost% zfs list -t snapshot | xargs

Re: [BackupPC-users] Can't access older backups after upgrade

2021-11-04 Thread Anthony Chavez
On 11/4/21 3:09 PM, Norman Goldstein wrote: On 2021-11-04 07:36, Les Mikesell wrote: On Thu, Nov 4, 2021 at 4:16 AM Anthony Chavez wrote: Namely? I use NFS for a lot of things. And apart from an abysmal security model (that can fortunately be hardened with a lot of extra work), I've had no

Re: [BackupPC-users] Can't access older backups after upgrade

2021-11-04 Thread Norman Goldstein
On 2021-11-04 07:36, Les Mikesell wrote: On Thu, Nov 4, 2021 at 4:16 AM Anthony Chavez wrote: Namely? I use NFS for a lot of things. And apart from an abysmal security model (that can fortunately be hardened with a lot of extra work), I've had no complaints. Think about the network activity

Re: [BackupPC-users] Can't access older backups after upgrade

2021-11-04 Thread Anthony Chavez
On 11/4/21 7:29 AM, jbk wrote: It appears to me that backuppc is no longer owner of the older backups because you changed distro's and the uid/gid has changed for the backuppc user. Your going to have to run chown backkuppc.backuppc on all the older folders & files to allow backuppc to see them

Re: [BackupPC-users] Can't access older backups after upgrade

2021-11-04 Thread jbk
On 11/2/21 05:08, Anthony Chavez wrote: On 10/19/21 7:06 PM, Anthony Chavez wrote: On 10/9/21 3:02 PM, Anthony Chavez wrote: Hi all, So I have had to make a slight change to my BackupPC setup and while I am able to access new backups in the web interface, I am now unable to access my older

Re: [BackupPC-users] Can't access older backups after upgrade

2021-11-04 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, Nov 4, 2021 at 4:16 AM Anthony Chavez wrote: > > Namely? > > I use NFS for a lot of things. And apart from an abysmal security model (that > can fortunately be hardened with a lot of extra work), I've had no complaints. Think about the network activity that has to happen when you rsync a

Re: [BackupPC-users] Can't access older backups after upgrade

2021-11-04 Thread G.W. Haywood via BackupPC-users
Hi there, On Thu, 4 Nov 2021, Anthony Chavez wrote: On 11/2/21 7:54 AM, G.W. Haywood via BackupPC-users wrote: Hi G.W.! Thanks for responding. :) FWIW I wouldn't use NFS for anything that even vaguely bears a passing resemblance to a backup system.? In my experience NFS is always flaky.

Re: [BackupPC-users] Can't access older backups after upgrade

2021-11-04 Thread Anthony Chavez
On 11/2/21 7:54 AM, G.W. Haywood via BackupPC-users wrote: Hi there, Hi G.W.! Thanks for responding. FWIW I wouldn't use NFS for anything that even vaguely bears a passing resemblance to a backup system.  In my experience NFS is always flaky. Even if you do get it more or less under control,