Hi all; I've got a new dell laptop I'm trying to setup. Most everything is working well but I cannot get dual monitor support working. There's a local Linux install-fest this weekend near me and I plan to attend seeking some help. However, I use this laptop as my main work computer and I cannot afford for it to be down, so just in case something we do at install-fest breaks my system (in fact I had early issue with the nvidia drivers causing me to only see a blank screen) I want to be able to restore properly. Here's what I've done so far: I have a filesystem "/stage" where I'm staging an rsync backup. I have a script that reads a list of directories and does an rsync. I've listed all root level (/) directories in this list except for stage, dev and sys since dev and sys are generated at boot time and stage is where I'm pushing the backups to. So, my backup scripts look like this: dirlist: ========== bin boot docs download etc home lib lib64 lost+found media mnt opt root sbin selinux srv tmp usr var rsync_backup.sh: ================== #!/bin/bash for I in `cat dirlist` do echo "[$I]" echo "==========" rsync -avXA --delete /${I} /stage/backup/rsync done rsync_restore.sh: ================== #!/bin/bash for I in `cat dirlist` do echo "[$I]" echo "==========" rsync -avXA --delete /stage/backup/rsync/${I} / done Here's my questions. Is this going to be reliable , i.e. if I have to restore will it accurately restore the entire system ? When I run the backup script I see IO errors like this: home/kkempter/.xsession-errors IO error encountered -- skipping file deletion rsync error: some files/attrs were not transferred (see previous errors) (code 23) at main.c(1040) [sender=3.0.4] rsync error: some files/attrs were not transferred (see previous errors) (code 23) at main.c(1040) [sender=3.0.4] I also see SE Linux warnings like this: Summary SELinux is preventing rsync from creating a file with a context of security_t on a filesystem. Detailed Description SELinux is preventing rsync from creating a file with a context of security_t on a filesystem. Usually this happens when you ask the cp command to maintain the context of a file when copying between file systems, "cp -a" for example. Not all file contexts should be maintained between the file systems. For example, a read-only file type like iso9660_t should not be placed on a r/w system. "cp -P" might be a better solution, as this will adopt the default file context for the destination. Allowing Access Use a command like "cp -P" to preserve all permissions except SELinux context. Additional Information Source Context: system_u:object_r:security_t:s0 Target Context: system_u:object_r:fs_t:s0 Target Objects: .index.6k5mIl [ filesystem ] Source: rsync Source Path: /usr/bin/rsync Port: <Unknown> Host: Issac.consistentstate.com Source RPM Packages: rsync-3.0.4-0.fc10 Target RPM Packages: Policy RPM: selinux-policy-3.5.13-38.fc10 Selinux Enabled: True Policy Type: targeted MLS Enabled: True Enforcing Mode: Enforcing Plugin Name: filesystem_associate Host Name: Issac.consistentstate.com Platform: Linux Issac.consistentstate.com 2.6.27.7-134.fc10.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Dec 1 22:21:35 EST 2008 x86_64 x86_64 Alert Count: 1 First Seen: Fri 23 Jan 2009 09:12:23 AM MST Last Seen: Fri 23 Jan 2009 09:12:23 AM MST Local ID: 77df5603-8c05-4884-ac35-19a5cab2070a Line Numbers: Raw Audit Messages : node=Issac.consistentstate.com type=AVC msg=audit(1232727143.337:1347): avc: denied { associate } for pid=8099 comm="rsync" name=".index.6k5mIl" dev=sdb1 ino=4825112 scontext=system_u:object_r:security_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:fs_t:s0 tclass=filesystem node=Issac.consistentstate.com type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1232727143.337:1347): arch=c000003e syscall=189 success=no exit=-13 a0=7fff5f0c8610 a1=17055e0 a2=17055c0 a3=20 items=0 ppid=8098 pid=8099 auid=500 uid=0 gid=0 euid=0 suid=0 fsuid=0 egid=0 sgid=0 fsgid=0 tty=pts1 ses=1 comm="rsync" exe="/usr/bin/rsync" subj=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 key=(null) Thoughts ? Thanks in advance -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines