The patch breaks the ability to backup remote machines. The additional directory created for security reasons is only created locally, but not promoted to the remote machine. See also bug #105000 The error looks like this: |------------------------------------------------------------ | File number 12, tape index 200512202202 | Backup of: border:/etc | Date of this level 2 backup: Thu Dec 22 05:31:07 2005 | Date of last level 1 backup: Wed Dec 21 05:21:00 2005 |------------------------------------------------------------ | ssh border 'touch -t "200512210521.00" /tmp/6136/refdate.6136' | ssh border 'printf "mp3 MP3 Z z gz gif zip ZIP lha jpeg jpg JPG taz tgz \ | deb rpm bz2 lzo" > /tmp/6136/nocompress.6136' | ssh border 'printf "Volume Label:\nlevel 2 border:/etc Thu Dec 22 \ | 05:31:07 2005 afio+gzip from joker\n\n" > /tmp/6136/label.6136' | /tmp/6136/collectexit.6136.sh ssh border 'cd "/etc" && (printf \ | "//--/tmp/6136/label.6136 flexbackup.volume_header_info\n" && find . \ | -depth -xdev ! -type s -newer "/tmp/6136/refdate.6136" ! -regex \ | ".*/[Cc]ache/.*" ! -regex ".*~"$ -print ) | afio -o -E \ | /tmp/6136/nocompress.6136 -z -1 m -P gzip -Q -4 -Z -M 2m -T 3k -v -' | \ | /tmp/6136/collectexit.6136.sh cat > "/dev/nst0" | ssh border 'rm -f /tmp/6136/refdate.6136 /tmp/6136/nocompress.6136 \ | /tmp/6136/label.6136' | [ ! -e /tmp/6136/exitstatus.6136 ] |------------------------------------------------------------ touch: cannot touch `/tmp/6136/refdate.6136': No such file or directory ERROR: non-zero exit from:
I just ran into this bug and am looking into a patch for it. I see the metadata for this package lists mholzer. Are you still maintaining this package (as this bug is assigned to maintainer-needed) or can I take it over? This bug has been haunting my remote backups for a while and I finally have time to look into a fix.
Created attachment 86773 [details, diff] flexbackup-1.2.1-secure-tempfile.patch This is a replacement for flexbackup-1.2.1-CAN-2005-2965.patch that fixes the issues with remote backup.
In CVS, thanks.
