[rdiff-backup-users] Re: Remote backup server without root and rdiff-backup?

[Jens Benecke]

Troels Arvin wrote:

> On Wed, 06 Oct 2004 13:51:56 +0200, Jens Benecke wrote:
> 
>> I am also thinking about mounting the local backup directory
>> "nosuid,noexec,nodev" (it is /home), this should not affect
>> rdiff-backup's operation, right?
> 
> I haven't tried it, but if it should affect rdiff-backup, then you would
> have found a bug, as far as I can see.

OK. I'll try it.
Will it also work if I change an _existing_ rdiff-backup data directory to
nosuid/nodev/etc? Or will rdiff-backup fail to update the existing backup?
 
>>> plan should work fine. I don't recommend backing up / completely - you
>>> can find lots about that in the archives.
>> So rdiff-backup is not suitable for "crash recovery" type backups?
> No, I don't think so. (But I don't like crash recovery" type backups, so
> it doesn't bother me.)

Well, what I want to do is basically be "up" again as quickly as possible
after a hacker attack or an accidental "rm -r" in the wrong directory.
Data loss due to harddisk failures is already covered by a RAID1.
 
>> btw: I just found out about SHFS. (http://shfs.sf.net) It lets you mount
>> directories via SSH. It performs quite well (~1-2MB/s) so it might be
>> suitable for remote rdiff-backup where only SSH access is possible. I'll
>> try doing remote backups that way.
> 
> Please tell us about your experiences when you have tried it for a little
> while.

It doesn't seem to work:

master:~# df
Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/md0               3903556    518544   3385012  14% /
/dev/md1                979804     34804    945000   4% /tmp
/dev/md2               9767120   1193260   8573860  13% /var
/dev/md3             118580056  13220096 105359960  12% /home
address@hidden:/bak
                     3692092416 867407936 2637136864  25% /mnt
master:~# time /usr/bin/rdiff-backup --print-statistics
--exclude-globbing-filelist /usr/local/sbin/backup.exclude / /mnt/rdiff/
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Detected abilities for source (read only) file system:
  Access control lists                         Off
  Extended attributes                          Off
  Mac OS X style resource forks                Off
  Mac OS X Finder information                  Off
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Warning: ownership cannot be changed on filesystem
at /mnt/rdiff/rdiff-backup-data
Warning: hard linking not supported by filesystem
at /mnt/rdiff/rdiff-backup-data
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/rdiff-backup", line 23, in ?
    rdiff_backup.Main.Main(sys.argv[1:])
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 259, in
Main
    take_action(rps)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 229, in
take_action
    elif action == "backup": Backup(rps[0], rps[1])
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 270, in
Backup
    backup_set_fs_globals(rpin, rpout)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 388, in
backup_set_fs_globals
    dest_fsa = rpout.conn.fs_abilities.get_fsabilities_readwrite(
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/fs_abilities.py", line
402, in get_fsabilities_readwrite
    return FSAbilities(desc_string).init_readwrite(
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/fs_abilities.py", line
155, in init_readwrite
    subdir.delete()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/rpath.py", line 851,
in delete
    except os.error: self.conn.shutil.rmtree(self.path)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/shutil.py", line 142, in rmtree
    raise exc[0], (exc[1][0], exc[1][1] + ' removing '+arg)
OSError: [Errno 16] Device or resource busy
removing /mnt/rdiff/rdiff-backup-data/rdiff-backup.tmp.0
 

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