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

[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.

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