Ticket #52 (closed defect: fixed)

Opened 2 years ago

Last modified 2 years ago

File permissions handling is broken

Reported by: Michael41 Assigned to: Andy
Priority: high Milestone: Stable
Component: gui Version:
Severity: major Keywords:
Cc:

Description

Hello!

I just downloaded the 0.5.0-2 and I cannot find out how to tell it to backup to DVD. I can backup to "Local File System", "Remote Host (SSH)" or "CD-R", but not to DVD. Any ideas?

Thanks!

Change History

21/05/07 17:05:52 changed by Andy

Hi

The option that's used to burn CDs for pybackpack can be used to burn to DVDs too, as far as I'm aware. I think the problem is that the list doesn't include a "DVD" option in the version that you're using (that's been fixed in the development version). So if you select the CD-R option it should work. Let me know if you have any more problems and I'll look into it.

Thanks

(follow-up: ↓ 3 ) 22/05/07 00:46:58 changed by Michael41

I tried to do a backup, but wound up with an error condition. This is what I got:

Mon May 21 17:20:14 2007: Starting backup of 'Backupone' to CD Mon May 21 17:20:14 2007: Analysing backup source Mon May 21 17:20:17 2007: Permissions/file missing problems on certain files: File: /home/mack/.config/menus/applications-merged/wine-Programs-Meade.menu Directory: /home/mack/.wine/dosdevices/d: Directory: /home/mack/.gnome/apps Directory: /home/mack/.local/share/mime File: /home/mack/.local/share/applications/googleearth.desktop Mon May 21 17:20:17 2007: Backup failed.

Does this mean that I have to go to those directories and set up different file permissions in order to do the backup?

Thanks!

(in reply to: ↑ 2 ) 23/05/07 01:18:00 changed by Andy

  • status changed from new to assigned.
  • summary changed from Cannot backup to DVD to File permissions handling is broken.

Replying to Michael41:

Does this mean that I have to go to those directories and set up different file permissions in order to do the backup?

I'm afraid it does at the moment, this is a known bug and is on my todo list. A temporary workaround is to either change the permissions on those files listed or to exclude them from your backup set. I'm changing the summary of this ticket to keep it relevant.

06/07/07 21:43:37 changed by Andy

  • status changed from assigned to closed.
  • resolution set to fixed.

This has been fixed in [125]. It now informs the user that there are files that cannot be backed up due to lack of read permission and asks them whether they want to continue.