Re: [rdiff-backup-users] [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/home/username/.gvfs'

[Jakob Unterwurzacher]

Hi, does
--exclude-other-filesystems
get rid of that?

Regards,
Jakob

On 15.05.2011 00:45, Andreas Herrmann wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I'm trying to create a backup of my system configuration using
> rdiff-backup. The idea is to have a backup of `/etc' and a few dotfiles
> in `$HOME' just in case I screw something up. Ideally this backup should
> be performed by a cron job.
> 
> rdiff-backup is called as
>     rdiff-backup --include-globbing-filelist file_list \
>         / $HOME/.backup/local
> 
> where `file_list' looks like
>     - /**~
>     - /.*.swp
>     - /**/.*.swp
>     /etc
>     /home/username/.ssh/config
>     - /
> 
> The problem: As soon as I put any file inside home into `file_list' the
> following error message appears and the backup fails.
>     [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/home/username/.gvfs'
> 
> Adding `- /home/username/.gvfs' to the file list doesn't help.
> 
> Googling around revealed, that this is a known problem and has to do
> with fuse [1,2]. [1] even says this issue would be solved in the cvs
> version. I've tried 1.2.8, 1.3.3 and the latest cvs version. All produce
> the same error message.
> The exact error message is attached to the mail.
> 
> I had a look at the code myself, but it's not clear to me where to
> handle this case. Non readable files should produce an error if they are
> listed as source or destination. But, I do _not_ want to backup `.gvfs'
> so it should _not_ produce an error...
> 
> A quick hack around this is given in [2]. But, it's definitely not an
> option for a cron job.
> 
> Best,
> Andreas
> 
> [1]
> http://www.backupcentral.com/phpBB2/two-way-mirrors-of-external-mailing-lists-3/rdiff-backup-23/rdiff-backup-trying-to-access-gvfs-even-though-it-is-exc-93726/
> [2] http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=783935
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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