<div>On 10/4/07, Tim <<a href="mailto:southern.tim@gmail.com">southern.tim@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> 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 "<a href="http://ssh://username:password@example.com/remote/dir/">ssh://username:password@example.com/remote/dir/</a>" the hostname of this 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 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 -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users </a> </blockquote></div> 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.