Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Permission denied errors on files that originally have no user

[Peter Schuller]

> I am not the OP, but following is my stack trace for this problem
> (/usr/local/bin/sudoedit has permissions ---s--x--x). CENSOR is just a
> privacy placeholder for the backup target/source desination information.
>
> This is with rdiff-backup 1.1.15 on both sides (on FreeBSD 7).

And here is the trace which is actually USEFUL ;) (The one from the remote end 
where the error occurrs)

Sending back exception [Errno 13] Permission 
denied: 'CENSOR.rdiff/usr/local/bin/sudoedit' of type 
<type 'exceptions.IOError'>: 
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py", 
line 334, in answer_request
    result = apply(eval(request.function_string), argument_list)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rdiff_backup/backup.py", line 
236, in patch_and_increment
    ITR(diff.index, diff)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rdiff_backup/rorpiter.py", line 
281, in __call__
    last_branch.fast_process(*args)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rdiff_backup/backup.py", line 
677, in fast_process
    inc = increment.Increment(tf, mirror_rp, inc_prefix)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rdiff_backup/increment.py", 
line 43, in Increment
    incrp = makediff(new, mirror, incpref)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rdiff_backup/increment.py", 
line 86, in makediff
    Rdiff.write_delta(new, mirror, diff, compress)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Rdiff.py", line 
68, in write_delta
    deltafile = librsync.DeltaFile(get_signature(basis), new.open("rb"))
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rdiff_backup/rpath.py", line 
1057, in open
    else: return open(self.path, mode)

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