Re: "[Errno 1] Operation not permitted" on particular files causes backup to fail

Bah, Stan double posted at https://github.com/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup/issues/628
We've continued there the discussion. 
Sorry for the noise, 
Eric

On 19 October 2021 19:38:26 UTC, Arrigo Marchiori <[email protected]> wrote:
>Hello Stan,
>
>On Sun, Oct 17, 2021 at 09:56:18PM +0200, Stan Schymanski wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>> 
>> I am backing up my home folder to an external usb-drive and all of a
>> sudden, the backup started failing due to the following error:
>> 
>> ListError: 'Documents/somefile1.pdf' [Errno 1] Operation not permitted:
>>  b'/home/user/Documents/somefile1.pdf'
>> ListError: 'Documents/somefile2.pdf' [Errno 1] Operation not permitted:
>>  b'/home/user/Documents/somefile2.pdf'
>
>If you found both errors during the same rdiff-backup run, then it
>probably means that the backup _did_ carry on.
>
>> Previous backup seems to have failed, regressing destination now.
>
>This is very strange because such a message should be at the beginning
>of the output, not at the end.
>
>> I found out that they were pdf-files that I cannot open myself in linux,
>> so I just removed them and started re-running the backup.
>
>Why could you not open them?
>
>If rdiff-backup had problems reading them, I would expect them to have
>``funny'' permissions (for example no "read" bit).  If permissions
>were ok, then you may have a problem with your filesystem, IMHO.
>
>I hope this helps.
>
>Best regards,