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

[Andrew Ferguson]

On Jun 17, 2008, at 3:49 PM, Chris Wilson wrote:

> 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.

Hi,

This bug is fixed in rdiff-backup 1.1.15.

restore_set_root should check if it can read a particular directory
before checking if "rdiff-backup-data" is contained in it. Closes
Savannah bug #21106. (Patch from Alex Chapman)

https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?21106


cheers,
Andrew