Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Permission denied errors on files that originally have no user

[Peter Schuller]

> Can you send the full traceback or log from what happened? There are a
> lot of checks in rdiff-backup to try and handle situations like this. It
> also shouldn't crash on something like this, but log it and move on...

I am not the OP, but following is my stack trace for this problem 
(/usr/local/bin/sudoedit has permissions ---s--x--x). CENSOR is just a 
privacy placeholder for the backup target/source desination information.

This is with rdiff-backup 1.1.15 on both sides (on FreeBSD 7).

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/rdiff-backup", line 23, in <module>
    rdiff_backup.Main.error_check_Main(sys.argv[1:])
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 
302, in error_check_Main
    try: Main(arglist)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 
322, in Main
    take_action(rps)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 
278, in take_action
    elif action == "backup": Backup(rps[0], rps[1])
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 
341, in Backup
    backup.Mirror_and_increment(rpin, rpout, incdir)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rdiff_backup/backup.py", line 
51, in Mirror_and_increment
    DestS.patch_and_increment(dest_rpath, source_diffiter, inc_rpath)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py", 
line 447, in __call__
    return apply(self.connection.reval, (self.name,) + args)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py", 
line 369, in reval
    if isinstance(result, Exception): raise result
IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 'CENSOR.rdiff/usr/local/bin/sudoedit'
Backup of CENSOR failed
Fatal Error: Lost connection to the remote system

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