Re: Getting "Skipping backward is not possible on a pipe" after upgrade

Vladimir Mosgalin <mosgalin-nIiT4xjOOBF/[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.sysutils.backup.dar.support
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi To [email protected]!

 On 2019.10.17 at 23:21:45 +0300, Vladimir Mosgalin wrote next:

> The reason why I was running it like this is because I had it to read
> the whole filesystem (thus root needed), but on the other had I needed
> to write backup as normal user, as the /mnt/storage being a kerberized NFS
> filesystem which root cannot write to. Unfortunately I lost ability to
> split archives by size this way but I just had to deal with it.

Oh I forgot to mention this, but --slice-mode cannot be used because it
tries to create file as user running dar (root in this case) and chown
it later, and creation fails with EACCES because root cannot write to
this directory, only user can.

-- 

Vladimir
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