On 2016-01-20 10:52, Emil Sandberg Lyngved wrote:
Hello.
i dont know if this is the correct method for support but i have to
ask someone who hopefully know a little more of what`s going on behind
the scenes than i do.
Long story short: i use iBackup Datacenter Edition, which is basically
a client for taking backup of my apache folder and my Owncloud 8.2
datafolder. it also has a webserver for administration.
recently, i discovered that backup of the data folder have not been
completed for a while because of a permissions issue. it didn`t have
access to the data folder. folder is located in /var/www/owncloud/data
and has permissions 0770. this is not enough permissions for ibackup
to take backup. and i try setting the permissions to 0774 in order to
allow ibackup to access the folder.
the problem is that the permissions on the data folder are being
automatically reset within a timeframe of about 10-15 minutes every
time i try to set them to 0774, they get set to 0770 after a while.
i figured it had to be because of a cronjob. so i stopped cron, and it
worked. the permissions didn`t reset and the backup was allowed to
continue.
is my theory correct? does the ownclouds cron.php reset the
permissions of the data folder?
i can understand why, as it is a security issue if the permissons are
incorrect, but how can i prevent cron from modifying the permissions?
or rather solve this some other way.
PS: i have had this solution running for almost a year with no
problem, but the last few months it has not been working. Of course,
any logfile can be provided if needed.
i do hope some developer can answer this for me.
thank you!
--
mvh.
Emil Sandberg Lyngved
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Making folders readable for all other users wouldn't be my preferred
option. Can't you change your user/group-settings in a way that your
backup user is part of the webserver-group? Then he could easily access
all files. If you want the backup user only to read, you could use chmod
750. For more complex user/group settings, you should have a look at
ACLs, e.g. for ubuntu:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FilePermissionsACLs
tflidd
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