Comment 5 for bug 907846

That is what I suspected. The admin was part of the user's group;
however, many of the files/branches which did not backup had local user
only permissions (drwx------).

I thought Deja Dup backup operated on a root level. If so, doesn't it
have the ability to copy all files, regardless of permissions?

If not, I am really scared I may have lost some other important files.
Last year, I transferred a large amount of legacy data from another
backup. That is the same time I converted from Win to Ubuntu. I know
many of these files had user only permission after I copied them into
Ubuntu, although I am not sure why.

The sooner you can patch this - the better.

Thanks for the quick response.
W. H. Allen

On 12/23/2011 12:44 AM, Michael Terry wrote:
> Is it possible that the admin user did not have permission to read the
> missing files in the personal account? I believe Deja Dup does not
> currently warn the user about its inability to read files during a
> backup, giving a false sense of security in such a case.
>
> That may be happening here? (I'm working on a patch as I type this to
> fix that.)
>