Error setting permissions: Operation not permitted when trying to backup to NTFS
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Duplicity |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
DUPLICITY: INFO 1
DUPLICITY: . Writing /media/
DUPLICITY: WARNING 1
DUPLICITY: . Attempt 1 failed: GError: Error setting permissions: Operation not permitted
DUPLICITY: DEBUG 1
DUPLICITY: . Backtrace of previous error: Traceback (innermost last):
DUPLICITY: . File "/usr/lib64/
DUPLICITY: . return fn(*args, **kwargs)
DUPLICITY: . File "/usr/lib64/
DUPLICITY: . target.
DUPLICITY: . File "/usr/lib64/
DUPLICITY: . raise e
DUPLICITY: . GError: Error setting permissions: Operation not permitted
DUPLICITY: .
The above happens when trying to backup to a truecrypt-encrypted NTFS external drive. It used to work in Fedora 18, in Fedora 19 it does not anymore. The following package versions are involved:
deja-dup-
duplicity-
python-
Changed in duplicity: | |
status: | Invalid → Confirmed |
no longer affects: | ubuntu |
I have the same error under Ubuntu 13.04 when trying to write to a NAS310 FTP server. It is formatted as ext4, though.
DUPLICITY: INFO 1 192.168. 1.4/backup/ duplicity- full.20130730T1 15103Z. vol1.difftar. gz
DUPLICITY: . Writing ftp://admin@
DUPLICITY: WARNING 1
DUPLICITY: . Attempt 1 failed: GError: Operation unsupported
DUPLICITY: DEBUG 1 python2. 7/dist- packages/ duplicity/ backend. py", line 316, in iterate python2. 7/dist- packages/ duplicity/ backends/ giobackend. py", line 137, in copy_file get_parse_ name()) python2. 7/dist- packages/ duplicity/ backends/ giobackend. py", line 112, in handle_error
DUPLICITY: . Backtrace of previous error: Traceback (innermost last):
DUPLICITY: . File "/usr/lib/
DUPLICITY: . return fn(*args, **kwargs)
DUPLICITY: . File "/usr/lib/
DUPLICITY: . target.
DUPLICITY: . File "/usr/lib/
DUPLICITY: . raise e
DUPLICITY: . GError: Operation unsupported
DUPLICITY: .
It has worked for a few days and then it mysteriously quit making automatic back-ups, giving me an "operation unsupported" error.
deja-dup 26.0
duplicity 0.6.21
Python 2.7.4
3.8.0-26-generic #38-Ubuntu