That error is coming from client-src/sendbackup.c: 821 access_result = access(device, amode); 822 access_type = "access"; 823 824 if(access_result == -1) { 825 err = vstralloc("could not ", access_type, " ", qdevice, 826 " (", qdisk, "): ", strerror(errno), NULL); 827 }
where 'amode' is R_OK. You can simulate this with: perl -MPOSIX -e 'print "yes\n" if POSIX::access("/", &POSIX::R_OK)' Dustin -- Storage Software Engineer http://www.zmanda.com