Re: [rdiff-backup-users] [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/home/username/.gvfs'

2011-05-16 Thread Andreas Herrmann
On Mon, 2011-05-16 at 10:01 +0100, Dominic Raferd wrote: Fuse limits access to its mounts to the exact user who fuse-mounted it. Not even root is allowed access or even stat such files. You can widen fuse access by putting 'user_allow_other' in /etc/fuse.conf and using '-o allow_other'

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/home/username/.gvfs'

2011-05-16 Thread Dominic Raferd
There is a fuse-fs for browsing rdiff-backup repositories [1]. Passing options to fuse is going to be enabled in the next release. With allow_user set I should be able to mount my config backup as root, but browse it as a user. There's also a nice way to automatically exclude filesystems that

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/home/username/.gvfs'

2011-05-15 Thread Dominic Raferd
Andreas: I have never used the --include-globbing-filelist, only the --exclude-globbing-filelist, but here are some suggestions: Try: run the command with sudo [for cron: put in /etc/crontab] Or: add '- /home/username/.gvfs' at the *top* of your filelist (if you haven't already tried it

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/home/username/.gvfs'

2011-05-15 Thread Jakob Unterwurzacher
Hi, does --exclude-other-filesystems get rid of that? Regards, Jakob On 15.05.2011 00:45, Andreas Herrmann wrote: Hello everyone, I'm trying to create a backup of my system configuration using rdiff-backup. The idea is to have a backup of `/etc' and a few dotfiles in `$HOME' just in case I

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/home/username/.gvfs'

2011-05-15 Thread Andreas Herrmann
Herrmann To: Dominic Raferd Subject: Re: [rdiff-backup-users] [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/home/username/.gvfs' Date: Sun, 15 May 2011 11:07:00 +0200 On Sun, 2011-05-15 at 08:35 +0100, Dominic Raferd wrote: I have never used the --include-globbing-filelist, only the --exclude-globbing

[rdiff-backup-users] [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/home/username/.gvfs'

2011-05-14 Thread Andreas Herrmann
Hello everyone, I'm trying to create a backup of my system configuration using rdiff-backup. The idea is to have a backup of `/etc' and a few dotfiles in `$HOME' just in case I screw something up. Ideally this backup should be performed by a cron job. rdiff-backup is called as rdiff-backup