Hi Andrew,
On Tue, 27 Feb 2007, Andrew Ferguson wrote:
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).
Sorry for the late reply. Do you happen to know where it does that,
Hi Andrew,
On Tue, 27 Feb 2007, Andrew Ferguson wrote:
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).
Sorry for the late reply. Do you happen to know where it does that, and
Corey Puffalt wrote:
As you can see I'm running the backup as root but on the remote side
(where the backup data is being stored) I'm just a normal user...
Yup, that's the issue and clearly a bug. It's different than the one
Frederic reported, but they both have to do with permission errors
Andrew,
Yes, I am running as root on the machine being backed up, though I'm
connecting as a normal user to the destination machine. Can you try doing a
second backup (to the same destination) and see if it still works? That
seems to be where I run into problems. Also I'm running v1.1.5 which
Andrew,
Thanks for your interest in this problem.
On 2/27/07, Andrew Ferguson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
What is the command you are using to run rdiff-backup? I'm a little
unclear as to what you mean.
[...]
The command I'm running (on my iBook) is:
sudo /sw/bin/rdiff-backup
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
Chris,
I tried using the --check-destination-dir option but of course when I re-ran
the backup it eventually complained about the permissions on the same file
again. I have submitted a bug report (
https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/index.php?19033) for this issue and unless
there's another
Chris,
Thanks a lot for your reply.
On 2/6/07, Chris Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Have you done it just once before to this location?
I have backed up the laptop to this location about three times before.
Exception '[Errno 13] Permission denied:
