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.)


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