Re: Interrupted backups...continued

[Daniel Staal <DStaal@usa.net>]

--As of March 22, 2014 1:24:17 PM +0000, jg5 is alleged to have said:

> 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
> [sudo] password for john:
> tarsnap: john/.gvfs: Cannot stat: Permission denied
>
> Does anyone know what this means and how to fix/get round it?

--As for the rest, it is mine.

> From a bit of Googling: .gvfs is some 'special file' created by Gnome, and 
for some dumb reason they did some fancy trickery to that file so that it's 
*really* hard to delete.  (It can be, if you find the inode entry and 
delete it by inode, but that's annoying.)

Easiest fix is to change that command to `tarsnap  -cf john.home_220314 
--exclude .gvfs john`.  It's part of the filesystem, and backing it 
up/restoring it won't help.  (I recommend changing the date as well, and 
I'd put it in ISO 8601 format.  It'll make your life easier.  ;) )

Daniel T. Staal

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