Re: [rdiff-backup-users] backup Windows to Linux file permissions

[Dominic Raferd]

Hello Patrik

I think the simple solution is to backup to a directory to which only one linux user has access. For our windows backups each Windows client machine has a separate linux user account on the server and backs up to its home directory. All users' home directories have 0700 permission. So only that user (and the linux administrator uid 0) can gain access.

Dominic

I've setup rdiff-backup to backup a windows computer. The backup always complete successfully, but the files created on the Linux servers are set to 0777. Security wise, it's very bad since everyone able to connect to the Linux server can see by files. I'm looking for a simpleway to make rdiff-backup create the files with a different permissions (e.g.: 0700 or 0770)

I've running a command similare to:

rdiff-backup.exe -v 5 --no-hard-links --exclude-symbolic-links --no-acls --remote-schema "plink.exe -2 -batch -i key.ppk %s rdiff-backup --server" --exclude-globbing-filelist my-excludes --include-globbing-filelist my-includes --exclude "C:/**" C:/ address@hidden::/home/ikus060/test-winxp-fr

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 Detected abilities for source (read only) file system:

   Access control lists                         Off

   Extended attributes                          Off

   Windows access control lists                 Off

   Case sensitivity                             Off

   Escape DOS devices                           Off

   Escape trailing spaces                       Off

   Mac OS X style resource forks                Off

   Mac OS X Finder information                  Off

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 POSIX ACLs test skipped. rdiff-backup run with --no-acls option.

 Windows ACLs test skipped. rdiff-backup run with --no-acls option.

 escape_dos_devices not required by filesystem at /home/ikus060/test-winxp-fr/rdiff-backup-data/rdiff-backup.tmp.0

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 Detected abilities for destination (read/write) file system:

   Ownership changing                           Off

   Hard linking                                 On

   fsync() directories                          On

   Directory inc permissions                    On

   High-bit permissions                         On

   Symlink permissions                          Off

   Extended filenames                           On

   Windows reserved filenames                   Off

   Access control lists                         Off

   Extended attributes                          On

   Windows access control lists                 Off

   Case sensitivity                             On

   Escape DOS devices                           Off

   Escape trailing spaces                       Off

   Mac OS X style resource forks                Off

   Mac OS X Finder information                  Off

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Thanks for your help.

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Patrik Dufresne

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