Yep,.... the advice to chown the file got lost in the shuffle however after I did that I click it and 'run in terminal'. then a shell opens and it says "building file list" and then something flashes across the screen and the terminal closes itself.<br clear="all">
<div><br></div><div>as for restoring the backup isn't there a way to retrieve one file?</div><div>:-)~MIKE~(-:</div>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 4:17 PM, Carruth, Rusty <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Rusty.Carruth@smartstoragesys.com" target="_blank">Rusty.Carruth@smartstoragesys.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I have not been watching this thread, and I've already moved them off,<br>
but I'll stick my foot in my mouth and share some comments that may or<br>
may not have anything to do with your issue, but which may be useful to<br>
others anyway....<br>
<br>
First, if you are not using 'tar' or 'cpio' or other program which<br>
correctly handles 'character (and block) special files' you will sooner<br>
or later find yourself copying much more than you should (think pipes<br>
and other character or block special files - or, indeed, soft or hard<br>
links!).<br>
<br>
Also, I agree about making sure you either run it as root or make sure<br>
the target dir is owned by you (maybe even in your group). However, if<br>
you are copying TO a network NTFS partition, you may have the same<br>
'interesting' issues with dates and permissions and such. But Matt<br>
probably hit the nail on the head with 'who owns the mounted device'...<br>
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Subject: Re: Fwd: undelete bookmark folder<br>
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From: Michael Havens<br>
[ trouble with a backup script that mounts a device with label<br>
MY_BACKUPS on /mnt/backup and then rsyncs /home/mike to<br>
/mnt/backup/mike/ ]<br>
> I figure I should [invoke] the [backup] script with sudo. I think that<br>
<br>
> will make it work but do not think that was the intent.<br>
<br>
One of the things that I said to do several messages ago but probably<br>
got forgotten was to take the destination directory (/mnt/backup/bmike<br>
?) and chown it to your user. The error messages you were reporting<br>
(changing mtime not permitted, no files in the destination dir) make me<br>
think the destination directory has the wrong ownership. If you made<br>
the dir as root, it'd be made as root:root and permissions 755 by<br>
default, which would not work at all when you ran the script as a<br>
regular user for obvious reasons.<br>
<br>
> Also, how do I access the drive since it will not give me a nice<br>
> little window with the contents thereof when I stick the t-drive in<br>
> the computer?<br>
<br>
If you need to restore from the backup disk, just mount it. The command<br>
for doing that is in the script ("mount /mnt/backup").<br>
<br>
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