[Duplicity-talk] How to avoid the "Error accessing possibly locked file" error?

[Peter Valdemar Mørch (Lists)]

Hi,

There is a file that the current user can't read. How can I avoid an
error due to that file not being readable? I'm not including it, and
even explicity excluding it still yields an error. I can't help that
the file needs to be there, but don't understand why an excluded file 
needs to lead to an error. Needless to say, I'd like my backups to
finish without errors...

$ touch include_this
$ touch include_this2
$ touch exclude_this
$ chmod -r exclude_this
$ mkdir /tmp/backup
$ duplicity --no-encryption --exclude ./exclude_this  --include 
./include_this --include ./include_this2   --exclude '**' ./ 
file://tmp/backup
Last full backup date: none
No signatures found, switching to full backup.
Error accessing possibly locked file ./exclude_this
--------------[ Backup Statistics ]--------------
StartTime 1260534584.29 (Fri Dec 11 13:29:44 2009)
EndTime 1260534584.29 (Fri Dec 11 13:29:44 2009)
ElapsedTime 0.01 (0.01 seconds)
SourceFiles 3
SourceFileSize 4096 (4.00 KB)
NewFiles 3
NewFileSize 4096 (4.00 KB)
DeletedFiles 0
ChangedFiles 0
ChangedFileSize 0 (0 bytes)
ChangedDeltaSize 0 (0 bytes)
DeltaEntries 3
RawDeltaSize 0 (0 bytes)
TotalDestinationSizeChange 311 (311 bytes)
Errors 1
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$ duplicity --no-encryption  --include ./include_this --include 
./include_this2   --exclude '**' ./   file://tmp/backup
Last full backup date: Fri Dec 11 13:29:44 2009
Error accessing possibly locked file ./exclude_this
--------------[ Backup Statistics ]--------------
StartTime 1260534594.42 (Fri Dec 11 13:29:54 2009)
EndTime 1260534594.43 (Fri Dec 11 13:29:54 2009)
ElapsedTime 0.01 (0.01 seconds)
SourceFiles 3
SourceFileSize 4096 (4.00 KB)
NewFiles 1
NewFileSize 4096 (4.00 KB)
DeletedFiles 0
ChangedFiles 0
ChangedFileSize 0 (0 bytes)
ChangedDeltaSize 0 (0 bytes)
DeltaEntries 1
RawDeltaSize 0 (0 bytes)
TotalDestinationSizeChange 238 (238 bytes)
Errors 1
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duplicity 0.5.18
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Peter Valdemar Mørch
http://www.morch.com