Re: [Duplicity-talk] remote_maifest problem

[Ben Escoto]

>>>>> Michael Johnson <address@hidden>
>>>>> wrote the following on Tue, 25 Apr 2006 14:47:30 -0400
> 
> Problem number two here...
> 
> I keep getting the following error when I try to run backups from / 
> etc/crontab on one of my machines:
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 373, in ?
>      if __name__ == "__main__": main()
>    File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 362, in main
>      check_last_manifest(col_stats)
>    File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 342, in check_last_manifest
>      last_backup_set.check_manifests()
>    File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/duplicity/collections.py",  
> line 128, in check_manifests
>      if local_manifest: remote_manifest = local_manifest
> 
> The interesting part is, when I run this manually as root (the real  
> root as in su -), it runs fine.  I have to log in every day to run  
> this instead of letting a cron job take care of it.  I'd like to be  
> able to sleep through 4am when the cron job runs and MySQL is shut  
> down for the backup.
> 
> Why is this happening and where do I look to fix it?

What is the actual error?  The included traceback doesn't include it.
Is it the "cannot read remote or local manifest" error?

If you are using the --archive-dir option, make sure that non-root can
read the files in that directory.


-- 
Ben Escoto

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