I'm testing rdiff-backup and I thought maybe someone could help me out. 1: Why is my backup smaller than the original folder? In my remote server I have 36G and in my backup server it's only 29G.
2: I was trying to restore some files but I got this error:
Exception '[Errno 13] Permission denied: '/home/brt/backups2/rdiff-backup.tmp.0'' raised of class '<type 'exceptions.OSError'>':
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 304, in error_check_Main
try: Main(arglist)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 324, in Main
take_action(rps)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 290, in take_action
elif action == "restore-as-of": Restore(rps[0], rps[1], 1)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 554, in Restore
dest_rp.conn.fs_abilities.restore_set_globals(dest_rp)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py", line 450, in __call__
return apply(self.connection.reval, (self.name,) + args)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py", line 370, in reval
if isinstance(result, Exception): raise result
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/rdiff-backup", line 30, in <module>
rdiff_backup.Main.error_check_Main(sys.argv[1:])
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 304, in error_check_Main
try: Main(arglist)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 324, in Main
take_action(rps)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 290, in take_action
elif action == "restore-as-of": Restore(rps[0], rps[1], 1)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 554, in Restore
dest_rp.conn.fs_abilities.restore_set_globals(dest_rp)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py", line 450, in __call__
return apply(self.connection.reval, (self.name,) + args)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py", line 370, in reval
if isinstance(result, Exception): raise result
OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/home/brt/backups2/rdiff-backup.tmp.0'
Fatal Error: Lost connection to the remote system
What happened and how can I fix it?
Thank you.