Hi Weloki! I've the same setup as yours and having the same problem, did you finally found a solution?
I'm only able to do a full backup logging as root, and I don't want to do that.... any help there? weloki wrote: > > On my server that I want backed up, I do not want to SSH into it as root, > so I've set up a special user that has an entry in /etc/sudoers to run > *only* the rdiff-backup command on the host with superuser privileges: > > Cmnd_Alias RDIFFBACKUP = /usr/bin/rdiff-backup > rdiff-backup ALL = NOPASSWD: RDIFFBACKUP > > ...everything else about the user is normal. Now for any file that does > not have the chmod o+r (readable by "other") attribute I get this error > when trying to back it up: > > ListError filename [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/path/to/filename' > > The file permissions could look only like -------r-- and that would work, > in any other way, without the "r" for "other" I get the error. When I > perform backups logging in as root, backups are made fine. > -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/permission-denied-error-when-making-backups-tp33447119p34043745.html Sent from the rdiff-backup-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at rdiff-backup-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users Wiki URL: http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki
