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Tarsnap Cache Issue in WSL
Hi,
I ran into a problem I cannot seem to solve. I use WSL on the
latest version of Windows 10 and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. I recently upgraded
my host, so I had to reinstall Tarsnap on WSL. I am running Tarsnap as
root, and I am trying to create an archive. In my tarsnap.conf file I
set my cache directory to be in /root.
I am getting an
error message that say's the following: "tarsnap:
link(/root/tarsnap-cache/directory.tmp, /root/tarsnap-cache/directory):
Permission denied"
I made sure permissions
were set correctly on the tarsnap-cache directory (I have tried full
rwx to everyone), and I have tried the default location in /usr/local/;
none of this has worked and I get the same error message.
I
made a second keyfile, but I have also tried to reuse my keyfile from
before I upgraded my host but that didn't seem to work in creating an
archive either; it let me extract from archives though.
I am using the basic command: sudo tarsnap -cvf "BACKUP_NAME" /mnt/c/Users/[USER]/Documents/tar-backup
I am at a loss as to why this is happening and I would greatly appreciate any help.