Re: [Duplicity-talk] spurious write errors

[edgar . soldin]

On 21.04.2016 02:53, Norman Goldstein wrote:
> I use duplicity 0.7.7.1 on Fedora 23 x86-64.
> 
> I did a successful restore with duplicity,
> but there were supposed errors of the form:
> 
>   Writing config.pl of type reg
>   Error '[Errno 1] Operation not permitted:
>   '/home/transient/systems/Duplicity/temp/config.pl''
>    processing config.pl
> 
> However, config.pl /was/ properly written to the destination directory.
> 
> I was not able to find in the duplicity code base where this
> message was originating.  It may be that I am having this annoyance,
> because I did a not-from-repo install of duplicity, and maybe some of
> its support packages need to be newer, too.
> 
> ??
> 

this usually happens when restoring as a non-root user. duplicity tries to 
restore file owner/permissions which is only allowed to root.

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