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

[Dominic Raferd]

> There is a fuse-fs for browsing rdiff-backup repositories [1].
> Passing options to fuse is going to be enabled in the next release. With
> allow_user set I should be able to mount my config backup as root, but
> browse it as a user.
>
> There's also a nice way to automatically exclude filesystems that do not
> correspond to block devices listed in /dev. E.g. proc, tmpfs, but also
> fuse.
>
> Haven't tried it yet, but this should work:
>    rdiff-backup --exclude-filelist<(grep -v '\(^/dev/\|^rootfs\)' /proc/mounts 
> | cut -d \  -f 2 | uniq) \
>      <other options>
>
> Best, Andreas
>
> [1] http://code.google.com/p/rdiff-backup-fs/

Yes I am aware of rdiff-backup-fs (but others may not be, so thanks for 
the reminder). It is the successor to archfs. I am waiting for it get 
beyond 1.0.0 too. I use rdiffweb (0.6.3) which works well.

Thanks for the tip re excluding filesystems.

Dominic
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