Hello,
I've installed rdiff-backup on my Linux-based web hosting account. It
works fine in server mode (I can send backups to that account from my
client computer). However, when I try to do a simple
directory-to-directory local backup:
rdiff-backup source dest
I get a weird "permission denied" error that references a directory
that shouldn't need to be accessed. Please see error trace below. My
account resides in /home/myaccount, but the error message is:
Permission denied: '/home'. Of course I don't have permissions in
/home because I am just a regular user.
> cd ~
> rdiff-backup sourcedir destdir
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/myaccount/rdiff-backup/bin/rdiff-backup", line 23, in ?
rdiff_backup.Main.Main(sys.argv[1:])
File
"/home/myaccount/out/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py",
line 283, in Main
File
"/home/myaccount/out/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py",
line 216, in final_set_action
File
"/home/myaccount/out/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py",
line 651, in restore_set_root
File
"/home/myaccount/out/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/
rpath.py", line 811, in listdir
OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/home'
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Any help would be most appreciated! I have already tried things like
absolute paths, and yes, the directories exist with mode 755 (a+rx
u+wrx). Rdiff-backup also fails when trying to act as the client,
sending the directory to another (known working) server.
Any ideas what this could be???
Thank you very much for this much-needed tool -- looking forward to
making good use of it!
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