Re: [Duplicity-talk] Sub-directories not backing up

[Kenneth Loafman]

Chris Willard wrote:
> Hello All,
> 
> I have a script file in cron.daily to backup using duplicity. The
> source is "/home" which at the moment only contains my home folder
> (i.e. /home/chris). The command format used to backup is as follows.
> 
> duplicity /home ftp://address@hidden@ftp.foo.com/data01/
> 
> If I use the above then the backup report shows only 1 file as being
> backedup. If however I specifiy /home/chris as the source it works
> including all the sub folders.
> 
> Any ideas what I am doing wrong?

Please post the output of 'ls -l /home'.

There are a couple of things that could be an issue.  One of them is
that you as a user do not have access to /home directly.  The other is
that /home/chris is actually a symbolic or hard link.  Either one will
keep duplicity from seeing the directory.

...Ken

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