simple backup

[Chaitanya Chalasani]

On 10/5/07, Tim M <southern.tim at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On 10/4/07, Tim <southern.tim at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > I have been trying to backup my laptop to a small server that I have
> > > been experimenting with. I am trying to follow the directions in
> > > "Ubuntu
> > > Hacks" but run into problems when I try to configure the destination.
> > > I
> > > can connect to the server using Place/Connect to Server but when I try
> > > to form the correct syntax in Simple Backup I get an error message:
> > > "The
> > > selected destination is not writable with current permissions. The
> > > backup can not be written there." What is the correct syntax. It says
> > > " ssh://username:password@example.com/remote/dir/" the hostname of
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> > > machine is "laptop" (very creative right). The user name for the
> > > server
> > > is simply "server". Which user name and which password is used in the
> > > "username:password"? I simply use the IP address for my server. I have
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> > > tried every combination I can think of but get NOWHERE! Any ideas or
> > > suggestions for a simpler way to backup my laptop. Maybe doing it with
> > > commandlines would be easier.
> > >
> > > Tim
> > >
> > >  <https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users>
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> > Simple Backup is quite a good tool. I am using it for my daily
> > incremental backups and once in a fortnight full backup. There might be
> > issue with the /remote/dir write permission for the user server. check if
> > the owner or the group has the write permission for the dir.
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> The command to change the permission would be:
> chown -R root:users /remote/dir
> chmod  -R ug+rwx,o+rx-w /remote/dir
> I am not sure what I am doing but is this what I need to do to change
> permission?
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> Tim
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Thats right but make sure the user "server"(which you have been using for
the simple backup) is the member of the group user.
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