Re: "[Errno 1] Operation not permitted" on particular files causes backup to fail

[Arrigo Marchiori]

Hello Stan,

On Sun, Oct 17, 2021 at 09:56:18PM +0200, Stan Schymanski wrote:

> Dear all,
> 
> I am backing up my home folder to an external usb-drive and all of a
> sudden, the backup started failing due to the following error:
> 
> ListError: 'Documents/somefile1.pdf' [Errno 1] Operation not permitted:
>  b'/home/user/Documents/somefile1.pdf'
> ListError: 'Documents/somefile2.pdf' [Errno 1] Operation not permitted:
>  b'/home/user/Documents/somefile2.pdf'

If you found both errors during the same rdiff-backup run, then it
probably means that the backup _did_ carry on.

> Previous backup seems to have failed, regressing destination now.

This is very strange because such a message should be at the beginning
of the output, not at the end.

> I found out that they were pdf-files that I cannot open myself in linux,
> so I just removed them and started re-running the backup.

Why could you not open them?

If rdiff-backup had problems reading them, I would expect them to have
``funny'' permissions (for example no "read" bit).  If permissions
were ok, then you may have a problem with your filesystem, IMHO.

I hope this helps.

Best regards,
-- 
Arrigo