Re: [Duplicity-talk] FTP error

[Adam Dixon]

Hi,

On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 9:17 PM, Kenneth Loafman <address@hidden> wrote:
> Adam Dixon wrote:
>> <snip>
>> Cmd: CLNT NcFTPPut 3.2.1 linux-x86_64-glibc2.7
>> 500: CLNT not understood
>> Cmd: PWD
>> 257: "/" is current directory.
>> Cmd: CWD backup/t
>> 250: CWD command successful
>> Cmd: CWD /
>> 550: /: Permission denied
>> Cmd: QUIT
>> 221: Goodbye.
...
> NcFTPPut does the same thing on my system and does not cause a problem,
> going to ProFTPD 1.3 on a Linux server. You need to make sure the backup
> user has read/execute permissions on the '/' directory, or set backup as
> the home directory of the user backup and change the command line
> accordingly.
>
> The issue is with the NcFTP tools, not duplicity itself.  If you set up
> as described above, you should not have any problems with either.

Unfortunatly its a lacie, and I have little power over it but a web
interface, the user certainly has read/write on the /backup dir, just
not /.

:(