Re: [Hampshire] Rsync backup problems

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Author: Graham Bleach
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To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Rsync backup problems
On 23/12/06, Tim <xendistar@???> wrote:
> The user mit has an account on both machines with the same password but
> everytime I do the rsync command I get errors like:
>
> rsync: recv_generator: mkdir "/home/mit/titan-backup/web" failed: Permission
> denied (13)
> *** Skipping everything below this failed directory ***


What are the permissions and ownership of /home/mit on the machine sun?

ls -ld /home/mit

I suspect the mit user lacks the write privilege on the directory.

G