The snapshot folder should have write access

Because the new version actually supports more profiles per user, this bug description is a bit confusing I therefore renamed it. The new multiple profiles per user actually gives a warning when you want to use the same folder more than one time. However that is on a per user basis.
A bug lying on top of the one that is described here, is that you should have write access to the folder that you are trying to use. If backintime is used by more than one user (or root) this check should already circumvent the possibility that multiple users try to use the same folder.

If you do not agree I will off course file this separately and will change the title back again...

A little update: it actually checks this already, however when there is already a backintime folder, it does not check if it has write access to that folder. Making a snapshot then results in an error that the folder new_snapshot could not be created.
So if there is already a backintime folder present you can select that as your snapshot folder without any warnings, although it is incapable of using it.

Multiple profiles per user? sounds interesting, but is this space efficient? Anyway, with this bug i just wanted to point that the usage of this program should be failsafe, so an unexperienced user does not have an totally unexpected behaviour. Checking write access is an option, but is it enough? I mean I just gave the user the write access to the backintime folder root was saving to, because i just encountered the error to not be able to write there and i assumed the program needs this write access!

I don't mean to throw a monkey wrench into this but if there is a multi-user PC that uses BiT then it may be highly likely that everyone who uses that PC will backup to the same space, to the same external hard drive for example.

I don't think that this is an unreasonable use case.

Can we prefix a username to the directory name?

Could be an idea, then we have to move the ld snapshots though...

2009/10/12 Richard Bailey <email address hidden>

> I don't mean to throw a monkey wrench into this but if there is a multi-
> user PC that uses BiT then it may be highly likely that everyone who
> uses that PC will backup to the same space, to the same external hard
> drive for example.
>
> I don't think that this is an unreasonable use case.
>
> Can we prefix a username to the directory name?
>
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> The snapshot folder should have write access
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/423086
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