Mike what are the permissions on the source machine for one of the files that shows up red in grsync?<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 12:29 PM, Michael E. Rentell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:michael.rentell@ntlworld.com">michael.rentell@ntlworld.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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On 15/12/11 11:41, Mike Evans wrote:
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to come to this late.
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If you are using NFS to mount the drive then it will work provided
your user ID numbers are the same on each machine as that's what
NFS uses. (Hopelessly insecure but hey they assume that you know
what you're doing and can secure your network properly.) However
there is an exception to this: root is protected and the default
behaviour is to do what's called 'rootsquash' - which stops root
on one machine being root on another. There is some setting you
can change to open that hole too if you really need to.
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MikeE
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</div><font size="-1"><font face="sans-serif">I suspect that I am using
samba because the cli line I use to connect is:<br>
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mount -t cifs //<a href="http://192.168.2.4/Backups" target="_blank">192.168.2.4/Backups</a> /mnt/backups -o
username=mick,password=mick<br>
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That connects no problem when using sudo from the cli. I can
read all the files there and copy them back individually to my
main machine. But if I try to copy to it, I normally use
nautilus, stuff from the main machine to the mounted directory
it is forbidden.<br>
<br>
When I sudo grsync (I find rsync too intimidating with all those
baffling parameters) it whips through all the files to send and
about a quarter of them are shown in red with permission denied
error 13. All the rest show up in black and you would think they
are going over OK. But when I check on the bac<small><big>kup
machine none have been updated - even if I tell nautilus to
refresh the list just in case it's missed something.<br>
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The backup machine uses PCLinuxOS so I can use its very
useful admin tools to check the samba shares and the backup
file has the password for mick set and its read/write
permissions set. When I cli ls -l that backup directory all
the directories are drwxrwxrwx and all the files in them are
rwxrwxrwx.<br>
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So I have no backup facility now.<br>
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I've looked at other backup solutions but they all seem to
produce an archive file which can only be restored in full.
I need a backup from which I can retrieve a single file if
needed. <br>
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Still baffled - sorry folks. No doubt I'm still a bear of
very little brain. But I do appreciate all the suggestions
I've received over the past 24 hours. Everyone seems to be
bending their minds to my problem. No doubt it is a trivial
thing, but it's beyond my minimal capabilities at the
moment.<br>
MikeR<br>
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