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KDE Neon cannot complete backups because it doesn't have permission to back up another user's home folder. How can I fix this? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/linuxquestions

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My backups don't complete because of the following error:

bup "-d" "/media/backonmybs/BackupSSD/KDENeon Backup" "init"
bup "-d" "/media/backonmybs/BackupSSD/KDENeon Backup" "index" "-u" "/home"
b'/home/': [Errno 13] Permission denied: b'chamaco/'                  
read Linux attr: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/home/chamaco/'       
WARNING: 2 errors encountered.

Exit code: 1
Kup did not successfully complete the bup backup job: failed to index everything.

The main account with admin rights is backonmybs. The other account which has full admin rights is chamaco.

How can I change permissions so that backups complete successfully?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I appreciate your response, but I don't know what it means. I just use the GUI. I go to Application Launcher -> Settings -> System Settings -> Backups and follow the intuitive prompt to set up a weekly backup schedule. The error comes from the panel widget showing me a button to view the log file when it wasn't able to complete the backup.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Alrighty. So if there is an option in whatever program you use to run as the root user, turn it on. Other than that, I'm not familiar with how to get bup to work as root from the GUI. Sorry.