[Klug-general] Permissions problem

[Michael E. Rentell]

Good morning all,
Is anyone able to tell me what I've done wrong this time?!

I use grsync to backup the entire contents of my /home/me/ directory on 
my main desktop PC to a similar one called /home/me/Backups on my second 
desktop. I do this, over the domestic wired ethernet, by mounting the 
remote Backups directory under /mnt/.. and then using grsync to copy the 
stuff over.

This used to work but now I am not sure. There are, of course, thousands 
of files and they whip up quite quickly but literally dozens of them 
appear in red and one of the ones I have been able to read says:

rsync:recv_generator:mkdir "directory-details" failed. Permission denied(13)

I have changed the permissions on the remote machine with

chown -R root:root /home/Backups

and everything in it went to root. So I then logged on to the second 
machine as root (it's PCLinuxOS) and let it run like that. And of course 
the grsync from my main machine runs under sudo because it is Ubuntu.

I think new files are being delivered to the remote machine, but it does 
not look like any new directories are being created or their contents.

All ideas would be very welcome at this time (consultant speak!).

Ta.

MikeR