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

[Sven Richter <sveri80@googlemail.com>]

Hi,

thank you very much, I had read permissions set, but not the
executable permissions, which seem to be needed too.

Thanks,
Sven

On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 8:46 PM, Mauro Ciancio <mauro.ciancio@cymait.com> wrote:
> Hi, I think those few bytes are the metadata that Tarsnap store about the
> archive itself.
> I guess that nothing got backuped up but the metadata.
>
> You should check the read and list permissions.
>
> --
> Mauro Ciancio
>
> On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 4:34 PM, Sven Richter <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
>
>