"[Errno 1] Operation not permitted" on particular files causes backup to fail

2021-10-17 Thread Stan Schymanski
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

Warning: modification time of b'/media/.../rdiff-backup.tmp.272244' isbefore 1970

2021-10-17 Thread Stan Schymanski
After my last backup onto an external USB drive, I noticed a lot of such warnings. The file system is ext4. I saw a very old issue on github reporting similar warnings, which has never been solved: https://github.com/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup/issues/6 Is this something to worry about?