[rdiff-backup-users] Error 1? Final moment permissions problem on target?

2014-04-15 Thread Ron Leach
List, good morning, We're in the middle of moving our backup destination from an old machine (with only 2TB) to a new one with 6TB space; each of these is on a separate NFS share mounted under /mnt. Our migration scheme is straightforward, but we hit a problem, possibly with permissions, and

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Error 1? Final moment permissions problem on target?

2014-04-15 Thread Claus-Justus Heine
Could it be that perhaps the UID mapping is not set up correctly? Being able to do r/w but not being able to preserve times and set permission could indicate that somehow the NFS-Server thinks that the files are not owned by the user issuing the command. Cam you do a chmod manually? Or can it

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Error 1? Final moment permissions problem on target?

2014-04-15 Thread Ron Leach
On 15/04/2014 10:38, Claus-Justus Heine wrote: Could it be that perhaps the UID mapping is not set up correctly? Being able to do r/w but not being able to preserve times and set permission could indicate that somehow the NFS-Server thinks that the files are not owned by the user issuing the

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Error 1? Final moment permissions problem on target?

2014-04-15 Thread Claus-Justus Heine
Am 15.04.14 13:27, schrieb Ron Leach: Useful pointers, thank you. What I find is that all the *directories* under /mnt/exist-dest and /mnt/new-dest have the same permissions (exactly as I had intended by using the -a parameter on the cp command to copy the existing backups to the new machine),