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jayd3e

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Registered: 2011-03-19

Posts: 33

Permission Denied When Doing Backup

So I am trying to backup my system with rsync.  I run this command:

sudo /usr/bin/rsync -avz --delete --numeric-ids --progress -e ssh / jayd3e@192.168.1.114:/raid/Backups/PsychoMantis

Most of my files get copied over smoothly, but for about 10 of them, including /etc/shadow and /etc/mtab.fuselock, I run into permissions errors.  It simply says failed to copy "blah": Permission denied.  Any ideas?  I've talked to people in irc that have never had this problem.  This is a fresh install.

ngoonee

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From: Between Thailand and Singapore

Registered: 2009-03-17

Posts: 7,356

Re: Permission Denied When Doing Backup

Does your ssh user have permissions on the remote server? Both files here have 600 permissions, while most of the others in /etc have 640 at least (or even 644), but I use rsync to backup remotely (ssh as root user though) and both go over fine.

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