Re: [orca-list] rdiff-backup

[Steve Holmes <steve holmes88 gmail com>]

Try simple stuff to see if you can read and write the USB drive
directly, like copying files to and/or from the drive.  I'm also
thinking a normal user might not have write access to it.  If it were
me, I would run rdiff-backup as root anyway; that way you can backup
other import system files that are owned by root anyway.  For me to
use USB devices as a normal user and have full priveleges, I added my
normal user to the disk group; see /etc/group for more details.  Over
the years I've added myself to different groups to overcome what
seemed to be permissions problems like being unable to write to a
device.

On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 10:21:27PM +0100, Michael Weaver wrote:
> I have rdiff-backup installed but for some reason I can't write to my
> USB drive.
> I looked at the rdiff-backup examples on the Internet and tried the
> simple example by putting slashes for my directory where my files were
> and doing /media/DISGO for sending the files to only I just get things
> like "Fatal Error" messages and things about not being able to create a
> directory.
>
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