Re: [Duplicity-talk] permission error running from cron.hourly

[edgar . soldin]

hey Brendan,

On 16.11.2023 16:25, Brendan Carroll via Duplicity-talk wrote:
> Good morning, I am running Ubuntu Server 22.04. I am attempting to run
> duplicity hourly from cron.hourly. I get the following error in the
> duplicity log:
>
> WARNING 1
> . Attempt of put Nr. 1 failed. PermissionError: Permission denied
>
> The text of the script in cron.hourly is:
> /usr/bin/duplicity --full-if-older-than 1M --log-file
> /home/brendan/backup.log  --name media-backup /storage file:///backup
>
> The permissions on the source and destination are:
> drwxrwxr-x   6 root family 4.0K Nov 10 16:55 storage
> drwxrwxr-x   3 root root   564K Nov 16 10:20 backup
>
>  From research, cron.hourly runs under root permissions, so I think my
> source/destination permissions should be good. The destination drive is
> the same size as the source drive, so space is not an issue.
>
> Any thoughts would be appreciated!

1. does running
 /usr/bin/duplicity --full-if-older-than 1M --log-file /home/brendan/backup.log 
 --name media-backup /storage file:///backup
in a root shell work flawlessly?

2. add '-v9' for maximum verbosity. maybe it tells you which file access 
results in the permission error.

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