Pika backup permission error [SOLVED]

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I get a warning every time Pika does a backup.

Warning: BackupPermissionError – /home/******/.local/share/containers/storage/volumes/9df4055273253f480bdae162546c4c62d3a35f8675b26711beac5ca70b82e0b8: dir_open: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '9df4055273253f480bdae162546c4c62d3a35f8675b26711beac5ca70b82e0b8'
Warning: BackupPermissionError – /home/******

I’ve checked the permissions in that folder and weirdly the files seem to have no owner.

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I’ve never had to do a recovery, but if I do am I going to be able to access these files? It would seem not. How can I rectify this problem.

All advice gratefully received.

3

From a terminal do ls -l on the folder that has the error.
What is the permission and ownership of the files and folder in the error message?

4

There is an old sysadmin adage that a backup that has not been test restored is not a backup.

It is worth doing a test that you can restore a file from your backups.
Keep notes on what the steps where you have to follow.

You will then have the confidence that when a bad thing happens you can do a restore.

5

Thanks for the reply, here’s the output. The file names are guids apparently.

❯ls -l
total 24
drwx------. 3 524288 524288 4096 Apr 18 12:04 17f38fc3ee0c8c39bf7b1397504c5e6e1e0435b8c72d37f3cae0cb210188fee0
drwx------. 3 524288 524288 4096 Apr 18 12:04 47de45a87b7bb956071d47786155f8884c573641f0f0ee279ac5d69902c42c05
drwx------. 3 524288 524288 4096 Apr 18 12:04 56fb0e1082e9337155fdbfedc0928f6e971d2f4d53049718b35608d56f9cabca
drwx------. 3 524288 524288 4096 Apr 6 12:05 6ec04b61bfa8737eb821a9ecc5c6d237507cb34393c0f218550457cd43c0bc7b
drwx------. 3 524288 524288 4096 Apr 6 12:05 9df4055273253f480bdae162546c4c62d3a35f8675b26711beac5ca70b82e0b8
drwx------. 3 524288 524288 4096 Apr 6 12:05 af36eb33541e3f6faace4286ae0ab575a5d35ca03278b79d067614e64be90043

6

You should exclude that location from Pika Backup.
Containers require a different backup method:
How to Backup Podman Containers

7

Well that makes sense. I jumped to the conclusion that those files were where Pika was backing up the files to. I’ve excluded them from the backup.

Thanks! Appreciate the advice.