Bug 116510 – Flexbackup cannot back up remote machines after patch CAN-2005-2965

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Jochen Erwied 2005-12-23 10:42:09 UTC]

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:

[Comment 1 Michael Stewart (vericgar) (RETIRED) 2006-05-14 11:58:42 UTC]

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.

[Comment 2 Michael Stewart (vericgar) (RETIRED) 2006-05-14 13:34:09 UTC]

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.

[Comment 3 Lisa Seelye (RETIRED) 2006-05-26 11:48:45 UTC]

In CVS, thanks.