On 22 December 2011 02:04, Scott Ferguson <prettyfly.producti...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 22/12/11 12:39, Sharon Kimble wrote: >> On 22 December 2011 00:59, Scott Ferguson >> <prettyfly.producti...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> On 22/12/11 11:26, Sharon Kimble wrote: >>>> I have an external usb hard drive that I use solely for storing >>>> backups which are done every three hours of my home folder. It >>>> is 'owned' by root, but I want to have the user boztu to have >>>> ownership of it so that boztu can write to it from their cron >>>> backup program, but how do I do it please? >>>> >>>> At the moment root writes to it at midnight and creates a new >>>> dated folder, because only root has write access to it. Then >>>> every three hours boztu writes to it and backs up the changes in >>>> the home folder, but I want user boztu to do =all= of it >>>> including creating the new dated folder. >>>> >>>> Does this make sense? >>>> >>>> Sharon. >>> >>> Assuming you mount it somewhere beneath /media, and that SOLID (or >>> whatever) is set to mount the drive there everytime >>> >>> # chown -R boztu:boztu /media/somewhere >> >> Thanks Scott for this. As the drive is owned by root should it be run >> as sudo? > > The # means run the command as root - saves me asking whether you use sudo. > My apologies for:- ;presuming you'd understand my shorthand ;forgetting > that others read the list. > >> Thinking logically, yes, so I'm running it as sudo accordingly, and >> its got just over five months of backups to chomp its way through! >> :) > > Saves discovering boztu has less rights than root! ;-p > > Still shouldn't take more than a few minutes to run through. You might > want to consider incremental backups during the day - and a complete > backup at the end of each day if space is going to become a problem. > Once you've finished changing the permissions for the directory you're > backing up to (/media/somewhere) it will be owned by boztu, but still > writable by root, (and remain owned by boztu). There are other ways to > achieve similar results but they involve group permissions I'm not > comfortable with. > >> >> Thanks Sharon. > > > Cheers (and happy solstice season) > I've just tried to create a folder on the external h/d which failed. This is the error report;- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ mkdir /media/8eef3b99-c17b-4913-ae61-d34c7fd5d459/test mkdir: cannot create directory `/media/8eef3b99-c17b-4913-ae61-d34c7fd5d459/test': Permission denied ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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