Re: backuppc problem

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On 04/19/2014 05:03 PM, Derrik Walker v2.0 wrote:
> On 04/19/2014 04:47 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
>> On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 10:40 AM, Derrik Walker v2.0 <dwalker@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> I've installed backuppc from the EPEL repository.  It does backups just
>>> fine, BUT, when the backups are done, the status on the web page says
>>> there are no backups for any of my systems I'm backing up.
>>>
>>> To be sure, they are taking up disk space, but it's just not reporting
>>> it correctly to the admin web interface.
>>>
>>> I'm thinking I'm missing some package I need, but am not sure exactly what.
>>>
>>> Any ideas?
>> The web interface doesn't  have access to the backuppc archive
>> directory.   Probably either selinux or you don't have the
>> perl-suidperl package installed.
>>
> I figured it out.
>
> Initially I was thinking that I was missing a package, but it turned out 
> to be selinux.  I actually figured that out right after I sent the email 
> by doing an setenforce 0, and it started working.
>
> So I installed setroubleshoot and figured out the problem is that I 
> moved the backup data directory from /var/lib/BackupPC to it's own 
> filesystem mounted on /data/backup, and since I did that, I had too:
>
> setsebool -P httpd_read_user_content 1
>
> Which solved my problem.  I guess it was seeing the archive files as 
> 'user_content' for some reason.  In anycase, it works now, and enforcing 
> is back on.
>
> Thanks.
>
> - Derrik
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The better solution would have been to label the data the same as it
would be in BackupPC.

# semanage fcontext -a -e /var/lib/BackupPC /data/backup
# restorcon -R -v /data/backup

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