On Sun, 2011-05-15 at 14:41 +0200, Jakob Unterwurzacher wrote: > Hi, does > --exclude-other-filesystems > get rid of that? It might. But /home is also on a different filesystem than /. And I don't want to exclude /home.
Turns out putting `- /home/username/.gvfs' at the very top of the file list solves the problem. The error message still appears, but is ignored. Best, Andreas PS: I just saw, that I accidentally answered to Dominic Raferd directly and not to the mailing list. Why isn't the reply-to field set? I'll append that mail here. -------- Forwarded Message -------- From: Andreas Herrmann > To: Dominic Raferd > Subject: Re: [rdiff-backup-users] [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/home/username/.gvfs' > Date: Sun, 15 May 2011 11:07:00 +0200 > > On Sun, 2011-05-15 at 08:35 +0100, Dominic Raferd wrote: > > I have never used the --include-globbing-filelist, only the > > --exclude-globbing-filelist, but here are some suggestions: > > > > Try: run the command with sudo [for cron: put in /etc/crontab] > Sorry, forgot to mention that. I'm already running it with sudo. > > > Or: add '- /home/username/.gvfs' at the *top* of your filelist (if you > > haven't already tried it there) > Hmm, I'm pretty sure I already tried that. But now it works, when I put > that at the top of the list. Thanks! > > > What has fuse got to do with it? Fuse is not normally used by > > rdiff-backup. However I do successfully use rdiff-backup to backup a > > remote /home directory mounted using sshfs, so it can work. > That is explained in [1]. Fuse limits access to its mounts to the exact > user who fuse-mounted it. Not even root is allowed access or even stat > such files. > > Best, Andreas > > > > [1] > > > http://www.backupcentral.com/phpBB2/two-way-mirrors-of-external-mailing-lists-3/rdiff-backup-23/rdiff-backup-trying-to-access-gvfs-even-though-it-is-exc-93726/ > > > [2] http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=783935 > > $ rdiff-backup --version > rdiff-backup 1.3.3 _______________________________________________ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users Wiki URL: http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki
