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jole

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Registered: 2020-06-10

Posts: 18

Jottacloud and jotta-cli

Hello

I'm trying to get jotta-cli to work on my arch installation, see output of uname below:

[0][jole@Holtedahlfonna ~]$ uname -a
Linux Holtedahlfonna 5.15.22-1-lts #1 SMP Tue, 08 Feb 2022 19:00:40 +0000 x86_64 GNU/Linux

I have managed to install jotta using:

paru -S jotta-cli

and also started the daemon, see output below:

[0][jole@Holtedahlfonna ~]$ systemctl status jottad
● jottad.service - Jottacloud cli
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/jottad.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
     Active: active (running) since Tue 2022-02-15 17:30:17 CET; 11min ago
   Main PID: 1407 (jottad)
      Tasks: 11 (limit: 19067)
     Memory: 12.7M
        CPU: 3.460s
     CGroup: /system.slice/jottad.service
             └─1407 /usr/bin/jottad

Feb 15 17:30:17 Holtedahlfonna systemd[1]: Started Jottacloud cli.
Feb 15 17:30:17 Holtedahlfonna jottad[1407]: 2022/02/15 17:30:17 No contextState
Feb 15 17:30:17 Holtedahlfonna jottad[1407]: [1407] creating logger @ /var/lib/jottad/jottabackup.log

In addition, logging in also went well using

sudo jotta-cli login

and the token generated from the website at:

https://www.jottacloud.com/web/secure

However, trying to setup sync I get an error:

[0][jole@Holtedahlfonna ~]$ sudo jotta-cli  sync setup --root Jotta/

WARNING:

  This is an in-development, beta version of sync.
  Some unexpected behaviour or bugs may occur.
  If any bugs are encountered, please reach out to us at support@jottacloud.com.

  If you have any suggestions on how to improve sync, open an issue at https://github.com/jotta/jotta-cli-issues.
  Thank you for helping us make jotta-cli better!


Continue sync setup? [yes]: yes

If sync encounters an error it can report it to Jotta automatically.

Chose the error reporting mode for sync:

  full          send most local metadata ( default )
  stackonly     send only the stacktrace and the error
  off           dont send any report

( See jotta-cli sync configure reporting -h for more information )

Choose error reporting mode[full]: full
 Interpreting input root [Jotta/] as [/home/jole/Jotta]. continue sync-setup(y/n): y


The existing sync folder on jottacloud.com contains 9 folders
jotta-cli can selectively ignore one or more of these folders if you do not wish to sync the data to this device
Do you want to setup selective sync? (y/n): n
ERROR  stat /home/jole/Jotta: permission denied
[0][jole@Holtedahlfonna ~]$

The last line here,

ERROR  stat /home/jole/Jotta: permission denied

I don't have permission to run stat on this folder, and I don't see why.

I created the folder

home/<user name>/Jotta

trying to do setup with the default owner/group. Failing at this I tried change the owner/group to jottad/jottad, but this also fails,

Have anyone (with better knowledge of linux than me) had similar issues and been able to fix them?

Best regards
Jon Leithe