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

[Andreas Herrmann]

On Sun, 2011-05-15 at 14:41 +0200, Jakob Unterwurzacher wrote:
> Hi, does
> --exclude-other-filesystems
> get rid of that?
It might. But /home is also on a different filesystem than /. And I
don't want to exclude /home.

Turns out putting `- /home/username/.gvfs' at the very top of the file
list solves the problem. The error message still appears, but is
ignored.

Best, Andreas


PS: I just saw, that I accidentally answered to Dominic Raferd directly
and not to the mailing list.
Why isn't the reply-to field set?
I'll append that mail here.

-------- Forwarded Message --------
From: Andreas Herrmann
> To: Dominic Raferd
> Subject: Re: [rdiff-backup-users] [Errno 13] Permission denied:
'/home/username/.gvfs'
> Date: Sun, 15 May 2011 11:07:00 +0200
> 
> On Sun, 2011-05-15 at 08:35 +0100, Dominic Raferd wrote:
> > 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]
> Sorry, forgot to mention that. I'm already running it with sudo.
> 
> > Or: add '- /home/username/.gvfs' at the *top* of your filelist (if
you 
> > haven't already tried it there)
> Hmm, I'm pretty sure I already tried that. But now it works, when I
put
> that at the top of the list. Thanks!
> 
> > 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.
> That is explained in [1]. Fuse limits access to its mounts to the
exact
> user who fuse-mounted it. Not even root is allowed access or even stat
> such files.
> 
> 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
> 
> $ rdiff-backup --version
> rdiff-backup 1.3.3