sbackupd mistreats the hostname part of the backup directory
Bug #311967 reported by
Helmut Raiger
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| sbackup | Status tracked in Trunk | |||||
| 0.10 |
Won't Fix
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Undecided
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Unassigned | |||
| 0.11 |
Won't Fix
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Undecided
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Unassigned | |||
| Trunk |
Triaged
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Wishlist
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Unassigned | |||
Bug Description
When backing up files from several hosts to a single backup directory (like /var/backup locally and then via ftp to the same path) the host-name is only used to create the target backup directory but not when:
- creating the file map for incremental backups which will not backup files with the same paths but on a different hosts if they were already backed up.
- purges are performed: several host might have different purge settings and even if the same settings are used (log) it ends up wiping files that are backups of different machines.
As a work-around one should not backup to the same directory from different hosts. This is not a security issue in the common sense, but will destroy possibly valuable backup data.
| Changed in sbackup: | |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
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| Jean-Peer Lorenz (peer.loz) wrote | #1 |
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| Jean-Peer Lorenz (peer.loz) wrote | #2 |
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Work on this issue is under way. In the meantime, please use separate directories for different profiles (0.11.x) - this won't fix in 0.11
Thanks for reporting this issue.
Best regards.