Backups with rsync totally broken in Fedora 18

Daniel J Walsh dwalsh at redhat.com
Fri Jan 18 15:23:36 UTC 2013


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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.
> 
> 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 at lists.fedoraproject.org 
> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/selinux
> 
Does this help?

http://danwalsh.livejournal.com/61646.html
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