Re: [rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-backup detects that many files has changed - cifs mount

[Attila Strba]

Hi Bob,

Thanks for the response.  It happens every time.  I have disabled 
SELinux, still the situation didn't improve.
Is there a way I could analyse why rdiff thinks the files are different 
(like the security context)?

greetings
Attila

Am 26.07.2012 04:55, schrieb Robert Nichols:
> On 07/25/2012 10:53 AM, Attila Strba wrote:
> > Hi Guys,
> >
> > I am having some trouble using rdiff-backup since I've migrated the 
> > backup
> > scripts to a new CentOS 6.2 Server.
> > The backup scripts mounts several external remote server drives as CIFs:
> > mount -t cifs //$SERVER/$share -o 
> > username=${USERNAME},password=${PASSWORD}
> > /mnt/$SERVER/$share
> > and does a backup on an external USB HDD:
> > rdiff-backup --print-statistics /mnt/$SERVER/$share 
> > /$TARGET/$SERVER/$share 2>&1
> >
> > (I know, instead of mounting would be better to use the SSH copy 
> > feature of
> > rdiff-backup, but that's how the scripts are and I don't want to 
> > install rdiff
> > packages to the other servers.)
> > The problem is that rdiff-backup detects many files as changed 
> > although they
> > haven't changed at all.
>
> Was this a one-time occurrence, or do you see that happening every 
> time you
> make a backup?  I had that happen once, just once, after I did a full
> SELinux relabeling on my system.  Perhaps your new server is assigning a
> slightly different security context to CIFS mounts.  This is, of course,
> irrelevant if you are running with SELINUX=disabled.