Hi, thank you very much, I had read permissions set, but not the executable permissions, which seem to be needed too.
Thanks, Sven On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 8:46 PM, Mauro Ciancio <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, I think those few bytes are the metadata that Tarsnap store about the > archive itself. > I guess that nothing got backuped up but the metadata. > > You should check the read and list permissions. > > -- > Mauro Ciancio > > On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 4:34 PM, Sven Richter <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I am trying to backup something and get this log message: >> >> tarsnap: Removing leading '/' from member names >> tarsnap: /postgres: Couldn't visit directory: Permission denied >> Total size Compressed size >> All archives 7661631169 5593218938 >> (unique data) 5051231842 3768611408 >> This archive 2006 1425 >> New data 2006 1425 >> tarsnap: Error exit delayed from previous errors. >> >> >> I wonder what this exactly means. I would assume it cannot read the >> folder and therefore does not backup anything, however, it seems like >> it does do a backup of some data. But of which? How do I check >> everything works or works not as expected. >> This is a bit confusing. >> >> Best Regards, >> Sven > >
