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Re: [rdiff-backup-users] What does error message mean?
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Dominic Raferd |
Subject: |
Re: [rdiff-backup-users] What does error message mean? |
Date: |
Tue, 30 May 2017 06:44:04 +0100 |
On 30 May 2017 at 01:06, Eric Beversluis <address@hidden>
wrote:
> Which fs? I'm using the same external HDD to receive the backup that
> always worked in the past (most recently just before I updated Fedora). Why
> would that have changed? I always do my backup as root, so the command I
> ran was 'sudo rdiff-backup --exclude . . .'.
>
> It doesn't do any writing to my main HDD, does it? In any case how would
> that become unwriteable? I've been working and saving stuff to it all along
> since the upgrade.
>
>
> On 05/29/2017 07:06 PM, Marcus Schopen wrote:
>
>> It says "Read-only file system". Is your fs writeable?
>>
>
Have a look at this thread from this mailing list in 2010 - might help:
https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/rdiff-backup-users/2010-06/msg00023.html