Exec permissions in directories means "listing".
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Mauro Ciancio

On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 4:53 AM, Sven Richter <[email protected]>
wrote:

> 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
> >
> >
>

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