Re: [rdiff-backup-users] 1.1.2 restore error with readonly backup

[Sheldon Hearn]

On Tuesday 08 November 2005 07:19, Blair Zajac wrote:
> Trying to restore from an rdiff-backup created by root as my normal
> user, I got this stack trace:

That's not supported and there are no plans to enable support.  Search 
the archives for this Subject:

        Write-once read-many problem

You'll also find a patch against 0.12.8 that'll give you an indication 
of how to hack around the design issue.

Perhaps a few more wishlist requests might encourage Ben to take a look 
at adding an option to drop the self.perm_changer() calls for non-root 
users.

Ciao,
Sheldon.

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