Hi Brendan,
Could you try executing this command manually?
sudo ln /root/tarsnap-cache/directory.tmp /root/tarsnap-cache/directory
I'm expecting it to say "Permission denied". That would be good
news -- it means that we can investigate the permission problem
with shell commands.
Could you please send me the output of
ls -al /root/tarsnap-cache
? (if the `ls` command gives you "Permission denied", try adding
a `sudo` to it)
Cheers,
- Graham Percival
On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 06:01:09PM +0000, Brendan K. wrote:
> Hi,
> I ran into a problem I cannot seem to solve. I use WSL on the latest version
> of Windows 10 and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. I recently upgraded my host, so I had to
> reinstall Tarsnap on WSL. I am running Tarsnap as root, and I am trying to
> create an archive. In my tarsnap.conf file I set my cache directory to be in
> /root.
> I am getting an error message that say's the following: "tarsnap:
> link(/root/tarsnap-cache/directory.tmp, /root/tarsnap-cache/directory):
> Permission denied"
>
> I made sure permissions were set correctly on the tarsnap-cache directory (I
> have tried full rwx to everyone), and I have tried the default location in
> /usr/local/; none of this has worked and I get the same error message.
>
> I made a second keyfile, but I have also tried to reuse my keyfile from
> before I upgraded my host but that didn't seem to work in creating an archive
> either; it let me extract from archives though.
>
> I am using the basic command: sudo tarsnap -cvf "BACKUP_NAME"
> /mnt/c/Users/[USER]/Documents/tar-backup
>
> I am at a loss as to why this is happening and I would greatly appreciate any
> help.
>
> Thanks,
> Brendan K.
