Re: Backups with rsync totally broken in Fedora 18

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"Daniel J Walsh wrote:"
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> On 01/18/2013 09:20 AM, David Highley wrote:
> > Upgraded a test box to Fedora 18 and have tried to get rsync backups to it
> > working. Looked at many discussions about backing up in a selinux 
> > environment and all discussions seemed to be incomplete.
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> > Most indicate you should not keep selinux labels, but none of those 
> > discussion indicate what options to change. After working on a thousand 
> > line policy file I'm beginning to think you just want to completely turn 
> > off any audit of the rsync domain.
> > 
> > Is this how we should approach backups? If you do not preserve selinux 
> > labels what should the backup location get labeled to?
> > 
> > I'm surprised as long as selinux has been in use that a template with 
> > details has not been defined for this. By the way I had just submitted an
> > enhancement bug report for rsync with examples of getting it to function
> > with systemd control. -- selinux mailing list 
> > selinux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/selinux
> > 
> Does this help?
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> http://danwalsh.livejournal.com/61646.html

I had found and read this information, but was not sure from it and
the other discussions that it was the right direction and if the right
direction that it had complete information for doing the implementation.

Has anyone tried this and has it worked out? Do you define the backup
area as unconfined_u and relabel everything to that?

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