The backup folder should be relative to settings.json. But it sounds like
you're using an absolute path, so that should work. One thing to try is to
run node in your terminal and type fs.statSync('backup path string copied
from settings.json') and see what it says. It could definitely be
ownership, let us know :)

On Sat, Oct 7, 2017 at 12:05 AM, RichardWilliamSmith <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Glenn,
>
> I'll look into this - I suspected there were some issues around ownership.
> Did you follow the instructions I wrote? ie; do you have 'crontab' or
> similar set up to restart the server on reboot? I'm wondering whether it
> reboots into a different account... have you tried giving the backup folder
> different permissions? Personally I'm ok with 'chmod 777'ing things when
> they're on the Pi (I keep my secret plans for world domination elsewhere).
> If that works, it might be simpler to install it as root in the first
> place, for less overall faffing.
>
> I'd be grateful if you could let us know what you figure out.
>
> Regards,
> Richard
>
> On Saturday, October 7, 2017 at 10:00:37 AM UTC+11, Glenn D wrote:
>>
>> I have this set up and running on my Raspberry Pi, but the backup feature
>> doesn't seem to work. I set backups to '/home/pi/backup' and have a
>> directory set up there, owned by pi:pi
>>
>> I edited and saved a few tiddlers, but nothing shows up in the backup
>> folder.
>>
>> I also rebooted the Pi, just to make sure the TiddlyServer was restarted.
>>
>> After some further checking around, I notice that most of the system
>> tiddlers and several that I created myself are owned by pi:pi - but a lot
>> of other tiddlers that I created are owned by root:root
>>
>> Why would that be?
>>
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