Re: [Duplicity-talk] When restoring files on different server: Error '[Errno 1] Operation not permitted:

[Rodrigo Campos]

On Fri, Mar 08, 2013 at 04:06:16PM -0300, Mikko Ohtamaa wrote:
> I am testing restoring individual backuped files on non-orignal server
> using Duply / Duplicity. This is the command I run to restore a SQL
> dump file:
> 
> TMPDIR='/tmp' duplicity --name 'duply_fullbackup' --no-encryption
> --verbosity '4' --num-retries 15 --full-if-older-than 1M --volsize 250
> --exclude=**.log --exclude=**.fs.old --include=/etc --include=/home
> --include=/root --include=/srv --include=/var/www --include=/boot
> --exclude=/** --restore-time now --file-to-restore
> root/db_backups/opensourcehacker.sql ssh://yyy/duply/xxx
> opensourcehacker.sql
> 
> I'll get the following error during the restore:
> 
> Last full backup date: Fri Feb  8 09:11:30 2013
> Error '[Errno 1] Operation not permitted: 'opensourcehacker.sql'' processing .
> --- Finished state OK at 19:53:40.875 - Runtime 00:05:22.773 ---
> 
> Apparently the file was still restored correctly. I assume this has
> something to do with the fact that the server where the restoration is
> different and does not have the same users as the orignal server and I
> am not running as s root.
> 
> This error is harmless?

Probably (if I'm not wrong)

This error happens to me when, for example, I backup a file owned by root and
try to restore it on some other server using a non-priv user. The file is
restored okay, but then the user can't change the owner of the file to root and
the error is thrown.

I suspect is that because I have tried restoring it as root then, the error was
not thrown and the file owner was set to root. Although I have not looked at the
code to see this.




Thanks a lot,
Rodrigo