Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Re: Unable to restore from read only locations

[Andrew Ferguson]

Andrew Price wrote:
> On 09/01/07 13:41, Andrew Ferguson wrote:
>> From a quick glance at the source (I may have missed something obvious),
>> the failure to open restore.log for writing doesn't look fatal.
> You could be right, from the trace below it looks like some kind of
> chmod problem, sorry if I was misleading.
> 
>> Do you have a traceback of a failed rdiff-backup restore from read-only
>> media that we could take a look at?
> 
> Sure, it's a bit big so I uploaded the entire trace to
> http://andrewprice.me.uk/dropoff/rdiff-backup.log.txt

Well, for starters, the whole branch of code its failing in is only
called when you run rdiff-backup as a normal user. Try running the
restore as root and see what happens. If it fails again, send us the new
traceback.

What's going on is that rdiff-backup is preemptively trying to give your
user access to all of the mirror's files so that it doesn't run into
permission errors later on.

Andrew

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