Re: [rdiff-backup-users] can't backup - weird errors..

[Dominik Sandjaja]

Hey again,

Am Donnerstag, den 18.12.2008, 18:19 +0530 schrieb anirudh shekhawat:
> >> ~$ rdiff-backup --force /ANISINGH/ /media/disk-1/
> >> Exception '[Errno 13] Permission denied:
> >                         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > this looks like a good place to start ... Is your user allowed to create
> > anything on that partition? Have you tried to create a folder manually?
> >
> 
> Hey dominik.
> No wonder you are right and i'm amazed too.Lately i've been having
> quite a lot of troubles with my system so i guess i couldn't actually
> look at it as a silly error.
> Anyways i finally started backup on that drive but i was wondering why
> am i getting this in-spite of doing it with sudo.Never got this error
> when i started a rdiff-backup on an empty directory and this drive is
> empty.

depending on how you created the partition/filesystem, it may be that it
is owned by root:root with 755 permissions. No writing for user ani,
then.

> :~$ sudo rdiff-backup /ANISINGH/ /media/disk-1/
> [sudo] password for ani:
> Fatal Error: Destination directory
> 
> /media/disk-1
> 
> exists, but does not look like a rdiff-backup directory.  Running
> rdiff-backup like this could mess up what is currently in it.  If you
> want to update or overwrite it, run rdiff-backup with the --force
> option.

That is pretty obvious, isn't it? The error even provides a solution!

Dominik