[rdiff-backup-users] Re: Permission denied on file in backup repository

[Oliver Hookins]

Hi,

some more on this issue which we still get a LOT of problems with. It seems
nobody really cares about this issue, since nobody has replied.

When we get permission denied on files that have restrictive permissions on
the source due to performing the backup as a non-root user on the
destination, if there was an option to not store permissions natively this
could fix the problem.

I notice 1.1.15 has a "--no-acls" option which completely prevents backing
up ACLs. Would it be possible to add a "--no-native-acls" option which only
stores permissions in the meta-data? It would be supremely useful...

Once again, we get errors like this snippet:
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Rdiff.py", line 60,
in write_delta
    deltafile = librsync.DeltaFile(get_signature(basis), new.open("rb"))
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/rpath.py", line 957,
in open
    else: return open(self.path, mode)
IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/backup/server/usr/bin/sudoedit'


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Regards,
Oliver Hookins
Anchor Systems