rsync as backup from f11 to F10 - issues

[Daniel J Walsh]

On 08/11/2009 05:30 PM, Mike Cloaked wrote:
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> Mike Cloaked wrote:
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>> Machines on the LAN have been running backups across the network using an
>> rsync command within a script which essentially does:
>> rsync --delete -aXH --exclude blah /opt
>> home1:/media/usbdrive/BACKUPS/myhostname
>> and similar for other directories.
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>> This has worked fine until I installed F11 on some of the  machines in the
>> LAN, with ext4 filesystems on them.
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>> Trying the same thing in this case gave AVC denials on the machine
>> (running F10) to which the the external usb drive was attached (and with
>> an ext3 filesystem to take the backups)
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>> The AVC contained:
>> Summary
>> SELinux is preventing rsync (unconfined_t) "mac_admin" unconfined_t. 
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> I wonder if this is related to 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=510649
Yes you are trying to put F11 labels on an F10 box.  Just setup rsync to not maintain labels.