Mon 12 Feb 2007 02:20:24 AM UTC, original submission:
I'm getting the following error when trying to backup my laptop (Mac OSX) to my server (RHEL4) when running rdiff-backup v1.1.5 on both sides:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/sw/bin/rdiff-backup", line 23, in ?
rdiff_backup.Main.error_check_Main(sys.argv[1:])
File "/sw/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 295, in error_check_Main
try: Main(arglist)
File "/sw/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 315, in Main take_action(rps)
File "/sw/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 271, in take_action
elif action == "backup": Backup(rps[0], rps[1])
File "/sw/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 334, in Backup
backup.Mirror_and_increment(rpin, rpout, incdir)
File "/sw/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/backup.py", line 51, in Mirror_and_increment
DestS.patch_and_increment(dest_rpath, source_diffiter, inc_rpath)
File "/sw/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py", line 448, in _call_
return apply(self.connection.reval, (self.name,) + args)
File "/sw/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py", line 370, in reval
if isinstance(result, Exception): raise result
OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/mnt/backup/ibookbackups/private/var/db/Spotlight-V100/%2FVolumes%2Fftpmirror.sectoor.de'
I've tried running rdiff-backup --check-destination-dir on the backup directory to no avail.
Here are the permissions on the file that seems to be causing the problem:
The permissions on the backup side don't look problematic:
drwx------ 2 corey corey 4096 Jun 27 2006 %2FVolumes%2Fftpmirror.sectoor.de
On my laptop the permissions look slightly different:
drw------- 2 root wheel 68 Jun 27 2006 %2FVolumes%2Fftpmirror.sectoor.de
Hopefully someone can offer a fix. As it stands I'm unable to use rdiff-backup.
Thanks,
Corey
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