Package: simplesnap Version: 1.0.3
Hello, first of all I'd like to apologize that I'm reporting here while I tried the package on Ubuntu where things may be set up differently. Secondly, thank you for this package, I just set it up for the first time along with zfSnap and it is very convenient, it exactly fills the niche I had. The problem on Ubuntu 16.04 (which may not be the case in Debian) stems from the fact that zfs is set up to be used via sudo whereas simplesnapwrap on activehost calls zfs without sudo (which is hardcoded in simplesnapwrap). My workaround was to add the simplesnap user on activehost to sudoers and allow the required subset of zfs commands: sudo visudo -f /etc/sudoers.d/zfs Cmnd_Alias C_ZFS_SIMPLESNAP = \ /sbin/zfs list *, \ /sbin/zfs send *, \ /sbin/zfs snapshot *, \ /sbin/zfs destroy tank@__simplesnap_*, \ /sbin/zfs destroy tank/root@__simplesnap_* simplesnapuser ALL = (root) NOPASSWD: C_ZFS_SIMPLESNAP But unfortunately I had to do a modification to /usr/sbin/simplesnapwrap on activehost: #ZFSCMD=/sbin/zfs ZFSCMD="sudo /sbin/zfs" Then as usual, I run simplesnap on backuphost from cron: 6-56/10 * * * * root PATH=/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin /usr/sbin/simplesnap --host matrix --setname mainset --store backup/simplesnap --sshcmd "ssh -i /home/ivan/.ssh/id_rsa_simplesnap -l simplesnapuser" Of course, I hate to do changes to files owned by the package which can be overwritten in case of package upgrade, ergo this bug report. The solution I suggest is to allow the user to specify ZFSCMD as an environment variable, thus enabling creation of a "simplesnapwrap wrapper" (calling simplesnapwrap with ZFSCMD="sudo /sbin/zfs") which can be called from backuphost via --wrapcmd. If you see another way around it, I'll be happy to hear your thoughts. Thanks again. Regards, ~~helix84
