Re: tarsnap: /folder: Couldn't visit directory: Permission denied

[Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com>]

On 03/10/15 12:46, Mauro Ciancio wrote:
> Hi, I think those few bytes are the metadata that Tarsnap store about the
> archive itself.

Correct, that's the size you get from an empty archive.

Colin Percival

> On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 4:34 PM, Sven Richter <sveri80@googlemail.com
> <mailto:sveri80@googlemail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi,
> 
>     I am trying to backup something and get this log message:
> 
>     tarsnap: Removing leading '/' from member names
>     tarsnap: /postgres: Couldn't visit directory: Permission denied
>                                            Total size  Compressed size
>     All archives                           7661631169       5593218938
>       (unique data)                        5051231842       3768611408
>     This archive                                 2006             1425
>     New data                                     2006             1425
>     tarsnap: Error exit delayed from previous errors.
> 
> 
>     I wonder what this exactly means. I would assume it cannot read the
>     folder and therefore does not backup anything, however, it seems like
>     it does do a backup of some data. But of which? How do I check
>     everything works or works not as expected.
>     This is a bit confusing.
> 
>     Best Regards,
>     Sven
> 
> 

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