<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/5/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Tim M</b> <<a href="mailto:southern.tim@gmail.com">southern.tim@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<span class="gmail_quote">On 10/4/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Tim</b> <<a href="mailto:southern.tim@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">southern.tim@gmail.com</a>> wrote:
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I have been trying to backup my laptop to a small server that I have<br>been experimenting with. I am trying to follow the directions in "Ubuntu<br>Hacks" but run into problems when I try to configure the destination. I
<br>can connect to the server using Place/Connect to Server but when I try<br>to form the correct syntax in Simple Backup I get an error message: "The<br>selected destination is not writable with current permissions. The
<br>backup can not be written there." What is the correct syntax. It says<br>"<a href="http://ssh://username:password@example.com/remote/dir/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
ssh://username:password@example.com/remote/dir/</a>" the hostname of this
<br>machine is "laptop" (very creative right). The user name for the server<br>is simply "server". Which user name and which password is used in the<br>"username:password"? I simply use the IP address for my server. I have
<br>tried every combination I can think of but get NOWHERE! Any ideas or<br>suggestions for a simpler way to backup my laptop. Maybe doing it with<br>commandlines would be easier.<br><br>Tim<br><br></span></div><a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
</a></blockquote></div><br><br></span><span class="q">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.
</span></blockquote><div><br><br>The command to change the permission would be:<br>chown -R root:users /remote/dir <br>chmod -R ug+rwx,o+rx-w /remote/dir<br>I am not sure what I am doing but is this what I need to do to change permission?
<br><br>Tim</div></div></blockquote><div><br>Thats right but make sure the user "server"(which you have been using for the simple backup) is the member of the group user.<br></div><br></div>