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Hi Jon,
This is not a problem with Rsnapshot but rather with the way
permissions are treated.
On 27-Jul-07, at 7:42 AM, Jon Dowland wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/tmp/remove$ find foo -ls
33415 4 dr-xr-xr-x 2 jon jon 4096 Jul 27 12:33 foo
33416 0 -r--r--r-- 1 jon jon 0 Jul 27 12:33
foo/bar
/foo needs u+w permission in order for you to be able to create or
delete files in it, unless you are root of course.
$ ls -ld foo
dr-xr-xr-x 2 simon simon 6 2007-07-27 19:20 foo
$ touch foo/bar
touch: cannot touch `foo/bar': Permission denied
$ chmod u+w foo
$ touch foo/bar
$ chmod u-w foo
$ rm foo/bar
rm: cannot remove `foo/bar': Permission denied
By default, Rsnapshot passes -a to rsync when doing the copy to
preserve permissions. If you are running Rsnapshot as root, this will
not cause any problems and is most-likely the desired behavior. But
in case you are running as a regular user, you will need to make sure
all your folders have the right permissions before copying them.
You could change rsnapshot.conf to tell Rsync NOT to preserve
permissions, or, in Etch, you can use the new --chmod Rsync argument
to force folders to have the u+w permission set (ex. --chmod=Du
+rwx). See rsnapshot.conf rsync_short_args and rsync_long_args options.
Hope this helps!
Simon
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