Backing up Apache and HTDOC folder using RSYNC

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#1

Good afternoon all. I am having a little trouble with trying to backup my Apache (conf.d and httpd.conf) files to another machine via RSYNC.

Setup:-
** Both machines are running Suse 11.0 and Apache 2.2 **
Machine 1 - Main Webserver, 192.168.1.225
Machine 2 - Backup Webserver, 192.168.1.223

Machine 2 has /etc/samba/smb.conf entries:-


[apache]
	comment = Apache
	path = /etc/apache2
	guest ok = yes
	read only = no
	force user = root

[htdocs]
	comment = WWW Base Folder
	path = /srv/www/htdocs/
	guest ok = yes
	read only = no
	force user = badger_fruit

Machine 1 has (while logged in a local user badger_fruit) had two folders created in /home/badger_fruit/data/

apache
htdocs

In the /etc/fstab on Machine 1 I have added the entries:-


# APACHE BACKUP FOLDERS
//192.168.1.223/apache	/home/badger_fruit/data/apache	cifs	username=root,password=##########,auto,uid=root,gid=root,_netdev	0	0
//192.168.1.223/htdocs	/home/badger_fruit/data/htdocs	cifs	username=badger_fruit,password=##########,auto,uid=badger_fruit,gid=users,_netdev	0	0

There is a cron job set to run the script below every 1 hour:-


#!/bin/sh
LOG_FILE=/home/badger_fruit/data/backup-log

echo >> $LOG_FILE
echo "------------------------------" >> $LOG_FILE
date >> $LOG_FILE
echo "------------------------------" >> $LOG_FILE

echo "Apache Backup ==> 192.168.1.223" >> $LOG_FILE

rsync -avz /etc/apache2/httpd.conf  /home/badger_fruit/data/backup/apache/ >> $LOG_FILE 2>&1
rsync -avz /etc/apache2/conf.d/*  /home/badger_fruit/data/backup/apache/conf.d/ >> $LOG_FILE 2>&1

Problem:-
When I call the backup script, I see in the log file the following :-



------------------------------
Tue Aug 11 15:09:42 BST 2009
------------------------------
Apache Backup ==> 192.168.1.223
sending incremental file list
rsync: chown "/home/badger_fruit/data/backup/apache/httpd.conf" failed: Permission denied (13)

sent 38 bytes  received 15 bytes  106.00 bytes/sec
total size is 8334  speedup is 157.25
rsync error: some files could not be transferred (code 23) at main.c(1031) [sender=3.0.2]
sending incremental file list
rsync: chown "/home/badger_fruit/data/backup/apache/conf.d/apache2-manual.conf" failed: Permission denied (13)
rsync: chown "/home/badger_fruit/data/backup/apache/conf.d/badger.conf" failed: Permission denied (13)
rsync: chown "/home/badger_fruit/data/backup/apache/conf.d/mod_perl.conf" failed: Permission denied (13)
rsync: chown "/home/badger_fruit/data/backup/apache/conf.d/nagios.conf" failed: Permission denied (13)
rsync: chown "/home/badger_fruit/data/backup/apache/conf.d/php5.conf" failed: Permission denied (13)
rsync: chown "/home/badger_fruit/data/backup/apache/conf.d/phpmyadmin.conf" failed: Permission denied (13)
rsync: chown "/home/badger_fruit/data/backup/apache/conf.d/zm.conf" failed: Permission denied (13)

sent 183 bytes  received 33 bytes  432.00 bytes/sec
total size is 5593  speedup is 25.89
rsync error: some files could not be transferred (code 23) at main.c(1031) [sender=3.0.2]

Can someone please help me figure out why this is failing? I would have expected it to work (but obviously not and now I am stuck!)

Many thanks for reading though the above!

#2

So, I just wanted to post a quick update:
Instead of using SAMBA and RSYNCing to the mounted folder, I read a little more on RSYNC and it allows you to send files direct to a PC

eg

rsync -avz /srv/www/htdocs/ foo:/srv/www/htdocs/

(foo: being the destination PC).

Given that a go and it’s sent the files with no problem - just got to provide a password in the command line (more reading required!) and that should be that!

Hope this comes to some use to someone else as well as me!

#3

Great you got it sorted