Hi, Problem solved! Dominic identified the problem correctly, but not the cure. The thing that fixed my problems was editing the Cygwin /etc/fstab file as advised here:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5828037/cygwin-sets-file-permission-to-000 I've written up the full details here if you are interested: http://dadhacker.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/getting-rdiff-backup-to-work-with.html Thanks for the help! Dave. On 21 March 2013 17:18, Dominic Raferd <domi...@timedicer.co.uk> wrote: > Which version of windows? There is a known bug in Cygwin which causes big > problem under Windows 8 (but also exists under Windows 7) by which the > 'group' of the cygwin user is set incorrectly. > > To fix this for any future files: > > - Look up the group ID of the "Users" group in /etc/group: > cat /etc/group|egrep '^Users:'|cut -f3 -d':' > - Edit your /etc/passwd file. Locate the record for your user. The 4th > colon-delimited field is the "primary group" for the user, incorrectly set > to a non-existent group. Change that number to the number you found above > and save the file. > - Close the cygwin terminal and reopen. Create a new file. It should have > group "Users" and you should be able to change its permissions as desired. > > To correct existing files with wrong group settings use a recursive chgrp > like this (for all files in user's home): > > chgrp -R Users ~ > > > It might help? > > Dominic > > > On 19/03/2013 22:31, Dave Potts wrote: > > Hi, > > I've exactly the same problems as Timothy Stella. I'm running cygwin on > windows to debain linux. The first backup works fine. The second fails > with permission issues on the directory I'm backing up to. Does anyone > have a solution? > > Thanks, > > Dave. > > > > =============== > From: Timothy Stella > Subject: [rdiff-backup-users] Have rdiff-backup not preserve > permissions? > Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2013 09:57:28 -0800 > Hello, > I'm currently having a problem with rdiff-backup backing up some data. > It's running into really weird permissions issues. > I am using rdiff-backup 1.2.8 on CentOS pulling from rdiff-backup 1.2.8 on > Cygwin (winxp) like so: > backup@ centos$rdiff-backup -v6 address@hidden::/cygdrive/c/files/ > /mnt/backups/winserver/files/ > I have it backing up a directory -- the first time the backup runs, > everything is fine. The second time, however, I get permission issues with > the local copy (the directory I am backing up to). > I tried to remedy this by adding a chmod -R u+rwx at the end of my script, > but it doesn't seem to help. > I also tried to set the directory to 777 just to see if it'd work, and it > still fails. However, running the backup as root does work. > It is also worth noting that other directories (separate rdiff-backup > runs) for that same server are working without issue. > I tried to look up if I can have rdiff-backup just ignore the remote (in > this case, winserver) permissions but it doesn't seem possible. Is there > any way for me to get around this other than running that one directory as > root? > Thanks! > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > rdiff-backup-users mailing list at > rdiff-backup-users@nongnu.orghttps://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users > Wiki URL: http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki > > > > -- > *TimeDicer* <http://www.timedicer.co.uk>: Free File Recovery from Whenever > > _______________________________________________ > 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 >
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