feature request : check permissions

[commandline-be]

This is a feature request to add an option to vorta to also report permission issues when calculating directory sizes

[m3nu]

How would this look in detail? Like a status message with the path when there is an error? Are we logging errors currently? Would logging only be enough?

[commandline-be]

the feature is a matter of backup reliability hence both i'd say

keeping track of messages while calculating sizes is a sensible and effective practice, temporarily storing these in a log to generate user facing messages from makes sense to me as it does inform the user beforehond and not after when the backup is already running

[sten0]

I don't think logging is enough for the following reason: Vorta is used by less technical users who do not read logs, and because they don't read logs, they won't learn that files/paths are missing from their backups until it's potentially too late. As far as I know MacOS and Windows now also cache file system operations in RAM, so the time lost doing an os.walk of the configured backup sources for a permission check will be made up during the backup.