[Klug-general] Permissions problem

[Nathan Friend]

Hi Mike,
Take a look at your permissions, your destination directory may not be
writable.

http://www.zzee.com/solutions/unix-permissions.shtml

Cheers,

Nathan.


On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 10:16 AM, Michael E. Rentell <
michael.rentell at ntlworld.com> wrote:

> On 15/12/11 07:51, Alex Layfield wrote:
>
>> Does ur root on the other machine hv the same password?
>>
>> Did u change it recently?
>>
>> Perhaps Uid of the one root doesn't match the Uid of the other?
>>
>> U could create a new user/group for the shared directories with the right
>> permissions allocated?
>>
>>
>> /A
>>
>>  My root and user names etc are the same on the backup machine. Haven't
> changed them recently.
>
> The problem is also that the size of the backup is so big that if I send
> the entire content of the main machine to a new sub-directory on the backup
> machine it will fill the HD. Which is why I only do an incremental. Believe
> me that did work wonderfully until recently.
>
> I may have changed something in the way of permissions on the backup
> machine but at my age I cannot exactly remember all that has happened.
>
> If I can't get this sorted I may have to restore, from that backup set so
> that I pretty will fill my main machine. Clear the backup machine and then
> do a full to it.
>
> But it's all a bit of a fag and I'm bound to lose something in the
> process, if not everything.
> MikeR
>
>
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