Jacob, how about using sudo to perform the backups? That way BackupPC will have read access to everything. See this thread: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=46977D09.4080600%40bio-chemvalve.com
-Rob Jacob wrote: >> Is there a way to keep shoving BackupPC onwards even when it cries on >> unreadable user directories (such as .gnucash)? It seems kind of strange for >> BackupPC to have a fit and not backup anything else just because it can't >> access one folder. :P >> >> Here's the error log for .gnucash: >> >> Running: /usr/bin/env LC_ALL=C /bin/tar -c -v -f - -C /home/jacob/.gnucash >> --totals . >> Xfer PIDs are now 27985,27984 >> /bin/tar: /home/jacob/.gnucash: Cannot chdir: Permission denied >> /bin/tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now >> Tar exited with error 512 () status >> tarExtract: Done: 0 errors, 0 filesExist, 0 sizeExist, 0 sizeExistComp, 0 >> filesTotal, 0 sizeTotal >> Got fatal error during xfer (No files dumped for share /home/jacob/.gnucash) >> Backup aborted (No files dumped for share /home/jacob/.gnucash) >> >> >> (P.S. - I'm working on the permissions settings for .gnucash as you read >> this.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
