Re: [BackupPC-users] set-up question: how do I avoid "Cannot open: Permission denied" and "0 bytes"? Please help!

[Les M. <les...@gm...>]

Loren Serfass wrote:
> By the way, I think that the external hard drive issue might be a 
> distraction.  I get exactly the same errors when I don't connect the 
> external hard drive and I instead try to backup to the /var/lib/backuppc 
> directory on the internal disk.

Yes, I'd guess your use of sudo in the client commands is not resulting in 
running as root.  I've always just used ssh like any other host to get local 
files even though it is less efficient.

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   Les Mikesell
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