This seems to be a very nasty bug to me. Anyone installing backupc and expecting a no hassle backup of 'localhost' will be in for a shock, as the default tar arguments simply won't work under the default 'backuppc' user. There will always be at least a few files that don't give world- read access. What's worse is that backuppc will just keep trying to do its first full backup, trashing performance on that pc.
Including --ignore-failed-read as a default argument to tar seems to be a simple and effective fix. If users do want a full backup including protected files and take steps to do so e.g. run as 'sudo', it will have no effect. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/497732 Title: Tar exited with error 512 () status To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/backuppc/+bug/497732/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
