Re: [rdiff-backup-users] [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/home/username/.gvfs'

[Dominic Raferd]

Andreas:

I have never used the --include-globbing-filelist, only the 
--exclude-globbing-filelist, but here are some suggestions:

Try: run the command with sudo [for cron: put in /etc/crontab]

Or: add '- /home/username/.gvfs' at the *top* of your filelist (if you 
haven't already tried it there)

Or: put a symlink inside /etc/ to point to /home/username/.ssh/config 
and then just backup /etc?

Or: do 2 runs of rdiff-backup, one for /etc and one for 
/home/username/.ssh/config

What has fuse got to do with it? Fuse is not normally used by 
rdiff-backup. However I do successfully use rdiff-backup to backup a 
remote /home directory mounted using sshfs, so it can work.

Dominic
http://www.timedicer.co.uk/



On 14/05/11 23:45, Andreas Herrmann wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I'm trying to create a backup of my system configuration using
> rdiff-backup. The idea is to have a backup of `/etc' and a few dotfiles
> in `$HOME' just in case I screw something up. Ideally this backup should
> be performed by a cron job.
>
> rdiff-backup is called as
>      rdiff-backup --include-globbing-filelist file_list \
>          / $HOME/.backup/local
>
> where `file_list' looks like
>      - /**~
>      - /.*.swp
>      - /**/.*.swp
>      /etc
>      /home/username/.ssh/config
>      - /
>
> The problem: As soon as I put any file inside home into `file_list' the
> following error message appears and the backup fails.
>      [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/home/username/.gvfs'
>
> Adding `- /home/username/.gvfs' to the file list doesn't help.
>
> Googling around revealed, that this is a known problem and has to do
> with fuse [1,2]. [1] even says this issue would be solved in the cvs
> version. I've tried 1.2.8, 1.3.3 and the latest cvs version. All produce
> the same error message.
> The exact error message is attached to the mail.
>
> I had a look at the code myself, but it's not clear to me where to
> handle this case. Non readable files should produce an error if they are
> listed as source or destination. But, I do _not_ want to backup `.gvfs'
> so it should _not_ produce an error...
>
> A quick hack around this is given in [2]. But, it's definitely not an
> option for a cron job.
>
> Best,
> Andreas
>
> [1]
> http://www.backupcentral.com/phpBB2/two-way-mirrors-of-external-mailing-lists-3/rdiff-backup-23/rdiff-backup-trying-to-access-gvfs-even-though-it-is-exc-93726/
> [2] http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=783935
>
>
>
>
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