Hello Stan, On Sun, Oct 17, 2021 at 09:56:18PM +0200, Stan Schymanski wrote:
> Dear all, > > I am backing up my home folder to an external usb-drive and all of a > sudden, the backup started failing due to the following error: > > ListError: 'Documents/somefile1.pdf' [Errno 1] Operation not permitted: > b'/home/user/Documents/somefile1.pdf' > ListError: 'Documents/somefile2.pdf' [Errno 1] Operation not permitted: > b'/home/user/Documents/somefile2.pdf' If you found both errors during the same rdiff-backup run, then it probably means that the backup _did_ carry on. > Previous backup seems to have failed, regressing destination now. This is very strange because such a message should be at the beginning of the output, not at the end. > I found out that they were pdf-files that I cannot open myself in linux, > so I just removed them and started re-running the backup. Why could you not open them? If rdiff-backup had problems reading them, I would expect them to have ``funny'' permissions (for example no "read" bit). If permissions were ok, then you may have a problem with your filesystem, IMHO. I hope this helps. Best regards, -- Arrigo
