Hey again, Am Donnerstag, den 18.12.2008, 18:19 +0530 schrieb anirudh shekhawat: > >> ~$ rdiff-backup --force /ANISINGH/ /media/disk-1/ > >> Exception '[Errno 13] Permission denied: > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > this looks like a good place to start ... Is your user allowed to create > > anything on that partition? Have you tried to create a folder manually? > > > > Hey dominik. > No wonder you are right and i'm amazed too.Lately i've been having > quite a lot of troubles with my system so i guess i couldn't actually > look at it as a silly error. > Anyways i finally started backup on that drive but i was wondering why > am i getting this in-spite of doing it with sudo.Never got this error > when i started a rdiff-backup on an empty directory and this drive is > empty.
depending on how you created the partition/filesystem, it may be that it is owned by root:root with 755 permissions. No writing for user ani, then. > :~$ sudo rdiff-backup /ANISINGH/ /media/disk-1/ > [sudo] password for ani: > Fatal Error: Destination directory > > /media/disk-1 > > exists, but does not look like a rdiff-backup directory. Running > rdiff-backup like this could mess up what is currently in it. If you > want to update or overwrite it, run rdiff-backup with the --force > option. That is pretty obvious, isn't it? The error even provides a solution! Dominik _______________________________________________ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users Wiki URL: http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki
