On Sat 04 Jul 2015, Harri Suutari wrote:
> Package: dirvish
> Version: 1.2.1-1.2
> Severity: important
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> if there are sshfs mounts with default options mounted
> in the directory to be backed up, Dirvish leaves the
> backup incomplete. The new backup directory does not
> even have read access for users.
That is because the backup is considered to be failed, and dirvish does
not want to allow users to access such incomplete backups unknowingly.
This is a design decision.
> It should not be possible to invalidate the (daily) backup
> process of /home by any actions that users might do.
Then you should exclude such mounts from the backup, e.g. by adding
xdev: 1
to the dirvish.conf for that tree.
> Now the sshfs mounts should be done with "-o allow_root"
> to have successful backups also. But it's not realistic to
> expect all normal users to respect this rule.
The filesystems mounted by sshfs should be backed up at the host where
they originate.
Paul
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