Chris,

Thanks a lot for your reply.

On 2/6/07, Chris Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Have you done it just once before to this location?


I have backed up the laptop to this location about three times before.


Exception '[Errno 13] Permission denied:
>
'/mnt/backup/ibookbackups/private/var/db/Spotlight-V100/%2FVolumes%2Fftpmirror.sectoor.de''
> raised of class 'exceptions.OSError':

What are the permissions on that directory? rdiff-backup has some problems
with directories with weird permissions like d--x------, because it
mirrors those permissions in the repository, and then finds that it can't
access the directory on the next run.


The permissions on the backup side don't look problematic:

drwx------   2 corey corey 4096 Jun 27  2006
%2FVolumes%2Fftpmirror.sectoor.de

On my laptop the permissions look slightly different (could it be the x bit
is the problem?):

drw-------    2 root  wheel   68 Jun 27  2006
%2FVolumes%2Fftpmirror.sectoor.de

Is the issue with permissions a known issue that is being worked on or
should I create a bug report?


That was the error on the local side, the trace above was the error
reported by the remote side before it died. So yes, it is a red herring.
Try --check-destination-dir on the repository to fix it.


Thanks for that tip.  I will try that.  This does cause me quite a bit of
concern over the stability of rdiff-backup.

Corey
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