Accessing Back Up folders in Root?

EntropyTTU · July 4, 2009, 7:15pm

Hello, again.

I have two HDDs, one main with Suse 11.1, and the 2nd HDD with two partitions: 1 vista, 1 ext3 for Linux Back Ups.

I mounted the Ext3 partition in Suse within root as: /LinuxBackUP
however, whenever trying to access it, or save any files to it, I get “access denied”. I thought maybe it was a root access issue, and mounted within /home/documents, but still got the same “access denied”.

Any ideas?

Thanks

caf4926 · July 4, 2009, 8:03pm

Is it permanently mounted or do you do it manually?

EntropyTTU · July 4, 2009, 8:15pm

I mounted it through Yast.

I formated first to Ext3.

Then chose: mount, and then /LinuxBackUp.

I can find it within root, but can’t copy folders there.

caf4926 · July 4, 2009, 8:18pm

Open a terminal and post result of this:

cat /etc/fstab

EntropyTTU · July 4, 2009, 8:42pm

EntropyTTU@linux-24m8:~/Desktop> cat /etc/fstab
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD2500KS-00MJB0_WD-WCANKK168127-part1 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD2500KS-00MJB0_WD-WCANKK168127-part2 / ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 1
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD2500KS-00MJB0_WD-WCANKK168127-part3 /home ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 2
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0
debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs noauto 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD800JD-00MSA1_WD-WMAM9Z038843-part1 /Vista ntfs-3g users,gid=users,fmask=133,dmask=022,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD800JD-00MSA1_WD-WMAM9Z038843-part2 /LinuxBackUp ext3 defaults 1 2

caf4926 · July 4, 2009, 9:05pm

That looks OK

Open a su terminal and do:

chown -R your_user_name:your_user_name /LinuxBackUp

*your_user_name (replace with your user name)

I think I have this right?!
You may need to reboot

EntropyTTU · July 4, 2009, 9:17pm

Results from term:

chown: invalid group: ‘EntropyTTU:EntropyTTU’

This is done with root, i.e. I changed directories within the terminal to root.

EntropyTTU · July 4, 2009, 9:22pm

Ok, it is working now. Maybe it was because I restarted.
Thanks

So did this just change user access rights?

Is this similar to user/groups permissions, through yast?

caf4926 · July 4, 2009, 9:30pm

You would need to have rebooted since setting up the mount.

Also, if you open kde file manager super user (kde3)
or Dolphin Super user
Go to the directory LinuxBackUp and right click - Properties - Permissions and set it like this:
http://thumbnails.imagebam.com/4116/95324b41155477.gif](http://www.imagebam.com/image/95324b41155477/)

EntropyTTU · July 4, 2009, 9:55pm

Ok thanks.

As far as using the back-up tool through Yast, is there a way to basically back up by copying folders to your desired directory, instead of tar archives?

If not, do you know of a program or method that will? As I don’t really want tar archives, or lists, I was simply wanting a file copy as back up.

Does that make sense?

Thanks for all of the help.

caf4926 · July 4, 2009, 10:32pm

If you install it
krusader has a synchronise directories

or app: rsync
or DirSyncPro (from Packman)

EntropyTTU · July 5, 2009, 5:18pm

Worked great, thanks.

caf4926 · July 5, 2009, 6:08pm

Happy to help as always;)