need help with an rsync patch

Kevin Korb kmk at sanitarium.net
Tue Aug 27 21:06:33 MDT 2013


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Only when you choose to force a completely unnecessary chown between
the backup and restore process.

On 08/27/13 23:03, Sherin A wrote:
> On Wednesday 28 August 2013 04:14 AM, Kevin Korb wrote: My opinion
> on backups is pretty simplistic.  If a restore of my backup doesn't
> bring me back to what I had when I backed up then I don't have a
> backup.
> 
> If I have to restore something and the relationship between files
> that were hard linked in the past is lost that might not be
> something that I even notice immediately.  Maybe not until the file
> is changed and now there are 2 versions of it in different places
> since the relationship is gone.
> 
> Either way, not backing up the hard link relationships duplicates
> data on both the backup and on any potential restore.
> 
> But even more importantly, the original question was about
> excluding all files with linkcount>1 from backups.  That means that
> any file important enough to have in more than one place would in
> fact never be backed up at all.  That is crazy.
> 
> On 08/27/13 18:37, Henri Shustak wrote:
>>>>> The solution is not to refuse to backup any file that is a
>>>>> hard link. There are legitimate reasons to have hard links
>>>>> and ignoring them means you aren't backing up everything.
>>>> I agree that preserving hard links may be important in some 
>>>> situation. There are certainly legitimate reasons to preserve
>>>> hard links within a backup.
>>>> 
>>>> To more than a couple of years I have been weighing up the 
>>>> advantages and disadvantages relating to including a hard
>>>> link preservation support within LBackup. The latest alpha
>>>> build of LBackup now includes support for hard link
>>>> preservation.
>>>> 
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>>>> 
> This is not crazy. Why a privileged user need to create multilevel
> hard links . This issue has been approved by secunia security
> community. Hope they will report it as a  vulnerability , because
> this POC has been exploited successfully  and it is affected by all
> software that  use rsync as a backup  and restore  tool.
> 

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