Re: [rdiff-backup-users] How to exclude dirs from basedir with "permission denied"?

[Chris Wilson]

Hi all,

On Tue, 17 Jun 2008, Bert Hiddink wrote:

> When I do:
> 
> rdiff-backup address@hidden::/usr/www/users/bendoo/
> /root/backup/bendoo-test
> ...I get a the following error from the remote system:
> 
> Exception '[Errno 13] Permission denied: '/usr/www/users'' raised of class
> 'exceptions.OSError':
> 
> Althoug I do not have permissions in "/usr/www/users/", I do have in
> "/usr/www/users/bendoo/" (this is my webroot).
> 
> I do not understand why rdiff complains about permissions while I only want to
> back-up "/usr/www/users/bendoo/" and not the higher-level directories?

I also have this issue running rdiff-backup on a webhost (bluehost) where 
/home is a weird filesystem that I have no permissions for, but I can 
access /home/myuser just fine. I wanted to back up some parts of my home 
directory using rdiff-backup, but I currently cannot because of this.

I would be very happy to see this fixed.

Cheers, Chris.
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