[CentOS] backuppc problem

Sat Apr 19 21:03:15 UTC 2014
Derrik Walker v2.0 <dwalker at doomd.net>

On 04/19/2014 04:47 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 10:40 AM, Derrik Walker v2.0 <dwalker at doomd.net> 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