Re: [rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-backup error: Mac OS X -> Linux

[Andrew Ferguson]

Corey Puffalt wrote:
>     On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, Corey Puffalt wrote:
> 
>     >>  Exception '[Errno 13] Permission denied:
>     >> >
>     >>  
> '/mnt/backup/ibookbackups/private/var/db/Spotlight-V100/%2FVolumes%2Fftpmirror.sectoor.de''
> 
>     >> >  raised of class 'exceptions.OSError':

Corey,

Did you run rdiff-backup as root? The permissions on that directory are:

drw-------   4 root    wheel     136B Feb 21 18:49 Spotlight-V100

If you don't run rdiff-backup as root, you cannot backup that directory
(no backup program can!). I just ran:

sudo rdiff-backup Spotlight-V100 Spotlight-V100.backup

and it worked perfectly. I think if you run rdiff-backup as root you
won't run into any problems.

Chris, rdiff-backup will adjust permissions as necessary (eg, adding 100
to Spotlight-V100 during backup), but you have to be the file's owner to
do so (or root).

Cheers,
Andrew


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