good external hard drives (e.g. WD Elements)?
mike cloaked
mike.cloaked at gmail.com
Sat Jul 18 08:46:38 UTC 2009
On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 4:05 AM, Paul Erickson<va7nt at telus.net> wrote:
> Hi Mike,
>
> After a couple of tries, I managed to get the disk formatted as an ext3
> partition.
> Unfortunately, now when I try to copy files to it, it get an error message
>
> Error while copying.
>
> The folder "backup" cannot be copied because you do not have permissions to
> create it in the destination.
>
> I tried using chmod to change the permissions on /dev/sdc, but this does not
> solve the
> problem. One good thing, Now when I plug the drive in, it is consistently
> recognized by
> the machine, so that is one step forward.
>
> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
I am guessing you were not doing the backups as root? Presumably you
did your partition creation as root.
I trust that when you plug in the drive is not only gets recognised
but also puts an icon on the desktop. You should also find that it
appears as /media/some-usb-diskname
So become root (i.e. su - )
What I would suggest is that you make a directory with mkdir
/media/some-usb-diskname/mybackups
Then chmod 777 /media/some-usb-diskname/mybackups
which will make the directory world writeable.
Then try
rsync -av some-directory /media/some-usb-diskname/mybackups/
This should certainly work as root but since the directory is now
writeable by anybody it should also work as a normal user.
You should then see /media/some-usb-diskname/mybackups/some-directory
and the files and directories within it.
If so then you should be good to go.
--
mike
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