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Error: rsync: opendir "/home/user/.dbus" failed: Permission denied (13) when backing up after upgrading to GNU/Linux Trisquel 10.0
I can no longer backup since I upgraded my system from GNU/Linux Trisquel 9.0 to GNU/Linux Trisquel 10.0
My terminal prints the following error when I run backintime backup:
Back In Time
Version: 1.2.1
Back In Time comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions; type `backintime --license' for details.
INFO: Lock
INFO: Take a new snapshot. Profile: 1 Main profile
INFO: Call rsync to take the snapshot
notify-send Back In Time () : Main profile Error: rsync: opendir "/home/user/.dbus" failed: Permission denied (13)
WARNING: Command "rsync --recursive --times --devices --specials --hard-links --human-readable --links --perms --executability --group --owner --info=progress2 --no-inc-recursive --delete --delete-excluded -v -i --out-format=BACKINTIME: %i %n%L --link-dest=../../20220303-170249-815/backup --chmod=Du+wx --exclude=/media/user/backup --exclude=/home/s04tw/.local/share/backintime --exclude=.local/share/backintime/mnt --include=/home/ --exclude=.gvfs --exclude=.cache/* --exclude=.thumbnails* --exclude=[Tt]rash* --exclude=*.backup* --exclude=*~ --exclude=.dropbox* --exclude=/proc/* --exclude=/sys/* --exclude=/dev/* --exclude=/run/* --exclude=/etc/mtab --exclude=/var/cache/apt/archives/*.deb --exclude=lost+found/* --exclude=/tmp/* --exclude=/var/tmp/* --exclude=/var/backups/* --exclude=.Private --include=/home/** --exclude=* / /media/user/backup/backintime/x220/user/1/new_snapshot/backup" returns 23
INFO: Save config file
INFO: Save permissions
INFO: Create info file
INFO: Unlock
I ran a search for similar errors in Issues and found https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/issues/559 but I can't see decrypt paths in the last snapshot log - only this error:
[E] Error: rsync: opendir "/home/user/.dbus" failed: Permission denied (13)
What can I try to do to fix this?
(MATE Desktop Environment 1.24.0)
What do you see in your backup destination directory, --link-dest=../../20220303-170249-815/backup ?
a.k.a /media/user/backup/backintime/x220/user/1/20220303-170249-815/backup
And by snashot log do you mean takesnapshot.log ??
My first attempt would be to correct the permissions on your .dbus directory. It's probably owned by root.
What do you see in your backup destination directory, --link-dest=../../20220303-170249-815/backup ? a.k.a /media/user/backup/backintime/x220/user/1/20220303-170249-815/backup
I see:
user@x220:/media/user/backup/backintime/x220/user/1/20220303-170249-815$ sudo du -h -a --max-depth=1 .
4,0K ./takesnapshot.log.bz2
15G ./backup
4,0K ./info
0 ./failed
996K ./fileinfo.bz2
8,0K ./config
15G .
Thank you for asking me to check the last backup destination directory, I did not think ./backup would be 15G. In other words, I did not think that most of the backup went through, and that the error only apply to .dbus directory.
As you suggested in your last sentence, I looked up the permissions for .dbus directory. It was owned by root. I ran user@x220:~$ sudo chown -R user:user .dbus (user is the username).
Then I tried backintime backup. It printed this:
Back In Time
Version: 1.2.1
Back In Time comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions; type `backintime --license' for details.
INFO: Lock
INFO: Take a new snapshot. Profile: 1 Main profile
INFO: Call rsync to take the snapshot
INFO: Save config file
INFO: Save permissions
INFO: Create info file
INFO: Unlock
Looks like everything is in order.
Thank you.
I will close this issue later if @gsker think there is nothing to add.
And by snashot log do you mean takesnapshot.log ??
No. I understood from https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/issues/559#issuecomment-201906035 that the "snapshot log" @Germar mentioned was "View Snapshot Log" from Back In Time's Graphic User Interface.
I'm not sure where that UI log data comes from. I'll check later. I'm glad it worked out!