Re: [Duplicity-talk] Attempt 4 failed: Error: Not a directory

[edgar . soldin]

On 16.04.2015 14:41, Thomas Prost wrote:
> Am Montag, den 13.04.2015, 15:39 +0200 schrieb address@hidden: 
>> On 06.04.2015 16:00, Thomas Prost wrote:
>>> Am Sonntag, den 05.04.2015, 23:06 +0200 schrieb address@hidden: 
>>>> On 03.04.2015 17:51, Thomas Prost wrote:
>>>>> Am Freitag, den 08.06.2012, 16:02 +0200 schrieb address@hidden:
> (...) 
>>>
>>>      1. Import of duplicity.backends.sshbackend Failed: No module named
>>>         paramiko 
>>
>> just a warning, should be fixed in later releases. see changelog
>>
>>>      2. Fehler '[Errno 1] Operation not permitted:
>>>         '/media/sdb/home/thomas/Vorlagen/test/home'' beim Verarbeiten
>>>         von . 
>>>      3. Fehler '[Errno 1] Operation not permitted:
>>>         '/media/sdb/home/thomas/Vorlagen/test'' beim Verarbeiten von .
>>
>> both are duplicity trying to restore owner and permissions of your
>> files/folders. changing owner requires to be root, so it fails.
>>
>>>
>>> Errors 2 and 3 might result from something that I hadn't expected.
>>> Is there a simple explanation for this (empty) directory in the
>>> snapshot ? ;-)
>>
>> you mean in the listing below? probably for saving owner/perms for for
>> the snapshot dir. did you backup '/' including '/home' excluding '**' ?
> 
> Sorry, but I don't remember, from what point I started that backup.
> Maybe not from / but from /home.
> BTW: Wouldn't a restore done by not-root-users always run into this
> situation that the to-be-restored-user is not owner of ./ (= /home) ?

yes.. it's somehow undocumented that you need to be root to restore owners, 
although if you know unix it makes total sense.

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