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Re: [rdiff-backup-users] [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/home/username/.
From: |
Jakob Unterwurzacher |
Subject: |
Re: [rdiff-backup-users] [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/home/username/.gvfs' |
Date: |
Sun, 15 May 2011 14:41:37 +0200 |
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Hi, does
--exclude-other-filesystems
get rid of that?
Regards,
Jakob
On 15.05.2011 00:45, Andreas Herrmann wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I'm trying to create a backup of my system configuration using
> rdiff-backup. The idea is to have a backup of `/etc' and a few dotfiles
> in `$HOME' just in case I screw something up. Ideally this backup should
> be performed by a cron job.
>
> rdiff-backup is called as
> rdiff-backup --include-globbing-filelist file_list \
> / $HOME/.backup/local
>
> where `file_list' looks like
> - /**~
> - /.*.swp
> - /**/.*.swp
> /etc
> /home/username/.ssh/config
> - /
>
> The problem: As soon as I put any file inside home into `file_list' the
> following error message appears and the backup fails.
> [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/home/username/.gvfs'
>
> Adding `- /home/username/.gvfs' to the file list doesn't help.
>
> Googling around revealed, that this is a known problem and has to do
> with fuse [1,2]. [1] even says this issue would be solved in the cvs
> version. I've tried 1.2.8, 1.3.3 and the latest cvs version. All produce
> the same error message.
> The exact error message is attached to the mail.
>
> I had a look at the code myself, but it's not clear to me where to
> handle this case. Non readable files should produce an error if they are
> listed as source or destination. But, I do _not_ want to backup `.gvfs'
> so it should _not_ produce an error...
>
> A quick hack around this is given in [2]. But, it's definitely not an
> option for a cron job.
>
> Best,
> Andreas
>
> [1]
> http://www.backupcentral.com/phpBB2/two-way-mirrors-of-external-mailing-lists-3/rdiff-backup-23/rdiff-backup-trying-to-access-gvfs-even-though-it-is-exc-93726/
> [2] http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=783935
>
>
>
>
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Re: [rdiff-backup-users] [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/home/username/.gvfs',
Jakob Unterwurzacher <=