Yep,.... the advice to chown the file got lost in the shuffle however after
I did that I click it and 'run in terminal'. then a shell opens and it says
"building file list" and then something flashes across the screen and the
terminal closes itself.

as for restoring the backup isn't there a way to retrieve one file?
:-)~MIKE~(-:


On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 4:17 PM, Carruth, Rusty <
Rusty.Carruth@smartstoragesys.com> wrote:

> I have not been watching this thread, and I've already moved them off,
> but I'll stick my foot in my mouth and share some comments that may or
> may not have anything to do with your issue, but which may be useful to
> others anyway....
>
> First, if you are not using 'tar' or 'cpio' or other program which
> correctly handles 'character (and block) special files' you will sooner
> or later find yourself copying much more than you should (think pipes
> and other character or block special files - or, indeed, soft or hard
> links!).
>
> Also, I agree about making sure you either run it as root or make sure
> the target dir is owned by you (maybe even in your group).  However, if
> you are copying TO a network NTFS partition, you may have the same
> 'interesting' issues with dates and permissions and such.  But Matt
> probably hit the nail on the head with 'who owns the mounted device'...
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-discuss-bounces@lists.phxlinux.org
> [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces@lists.phxlinux.org] On Behalf Of Matt
> Graham
> Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2013 3:23 PM
> To: Main PLUG discussion list
> Subject: Re: Fwd: undelete bookmark folder
>
> From: Michael Havens
> [ trouble with a backup script that mounts a device with label
> MY_BACKUPS on /mnt/backup and then rsyncs /home/mike to
> /mnt/backup/mike/ ]
> > I figure I should [invoke] the [backup] script with sudo. I think that
>
> > will make it work but do not think that was the intent.
>
> One of the things that I said to do several messages ago but probably
> got forgotten was to take the destination directory (/mnt/backup/bmike
> ?) and chown it to your user.  The error messages you were reporting
> (changing mtime not permitted, no files in the destination dir) make me
> think the destination directory has the wrong ownership.  If you made
> the dir as root, it'd be made as root:root and permissions 755 by
> default, which would not work at all when you ran the script as a
> regular user for obvious reasons.
>
> > Also, how do I access the drive since it will not give me a nice
> > little window with the contents thereof when I stick the t-drive in
> > the computer?
>
> If you need to restore from the backup disk, just mount it.  The command
> for doing that is in the script ("mount /mnt/backup").
>
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