Re: [BackupPC-users] dry run of BackupPC_compressPool cant' create dirs

[Vincent F. <v.f...@gm...>]

2006/7/25, Arlequ=EDn <am...@ad...>:

> I su to BackupPC user (backuppc) and launched the command:
>
> /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_compressPool -t -r
>
> but I am getting the following permission errors:
>
> mkdir /var/lib/backuppc/cpool/4: Permission denied at
> /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_compr
> essPool line 153

(...)

> I don't want to run that command as root because the documentation says
> I have to run it as backuppc user.

Try this:

sudo -u backuppc /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_compressPool -t -r

-- Vincent