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Permissions problem

Asked by BobvanderPoel

Whenever I try to restore a file the file is restored but I get the following "errors":

chown /home/bob 1000 : 1000
chmod /home/bob 40755
chown /home 0 : 0 : FAILED
chgrp /home 0 : FAILED
chmod /home 40755 : FAILED

I have no idea at all what is going on here.

My /home/bob directory is:

ll ../bob -dn
drwxr-xr-x 83 1000 1000 4096 Jun 22 16:48 ../bob/

and /home is:

ll /home -d
drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 4096 Apr 29 17:00 /home/

which I think is okay. Don't know why backintime would be concerned with /home? BTW, /home is partition mounted at boot via fstab:

  UUID=804f33ca-96ed-4e40-8f77-f7044f661623 /home ext4 auto

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Germar (germar) said : 		#1

Nothing to worry about. BIT tries to restore permissions for the file you restored and all folders up to your filesystem root. But your user doesn't have the permission to change these permissions for /home and /home/bob so it will fail. That's okay because the permissions didn't change at all.

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