When the backup fails because of permission restrictions, this can only be seen in the servlet container log, but no feedback is given to the user.
2007-01-27 19:15:38,952 ERROR [backup] (org.hotdeploy.tables.DbBackupThread::run:145) - Failure during backup: Permission denied
java.io.IOException: Permission denied
at java.io.UnixFileSystem.createFileExclusively(Native Method)
at java.io.File.createNewFile(File.java:850)
at org.hotdeploy.tables.DbBackup.writeSQLFile(DbBackup.java:73)
at org.hotdeploy.tables.DbBackupThread.run(DbBackupThread.java:133)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)
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