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From one problem to another.... I'm trying to backup my home directory, but get the following error: sudo tarsnap -cf john.home_22032014 john Does anyone know what this means and how to fix/get round it? I'm trying to run the backup from within the /home/ directory. The permissions are as shown: drwxr-xr-x 52 john john 4096 Mar 22 12:43 john However, I thought that running a command as 'sudo' gave root access to everything? I get the same result whether or not I describe the directory I want to back up as 'john', or './john' or '/john' - makes no difference. (I find that 'ls' will work with 'john', or './john', but not with '/john'. Anyone know why this should be or is it just a Linux oddity? Apologies for writing in with yet another problem. John -- The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute is operated by Genome Research Limited, a charity registered in England with number 1021457 and a company registered in England with number 2742969, whose registered office is 215 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BE. |