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Hi all,
lateley when I back my database up via the admin panel and then try to back up the files via ssh I get the following error message:



I use putty to log into my Debian server and the use the tar -cf command to back up the entire catalog folder. Usually this works fine, I have been doing this for months. But now I only get that error message.
I tired restarting the Server and restarting the apache (apache2ctl restart) but nothing helps.

Please helpme, I can't back up until then!!

So are you having problems access your site or the backup of the site or the backup of the db?

I get this message after I used the feature in the admin zone to back the db and THEN try to tar the (php) files of the site. So while the DB backup seems successfull, I am not able to backup the site anymore...

Still have that problem. I've had it before and it used to "just" go away but not this time. I have not backed up for 5 days.
Please help!

From what you've posted:


I'd make sure the permissions on XXXXX/admin/backups/db_osrun234-2008011307XXX.sql are at least 644

A good tip but sadly unsucessfull. I changed all the settings to all kind of things (including 644/755/777) but nothing changed...

How about the permissions on these folders:

/admin/backups

Are they 755?


If that doesn't work, you could get wild and set them to 777 briefly enough to try the TAR command once.

The backup folder is 777 (755 doesnt work for my server) and the admin folder is 755.

I'm out of cards to play.

Ever consider using FTP to backup to your local PC?

Thats what I am doing atm.
Thank you very much for playing!

Any more players dare step up to the table?

Bump.
I still can't tar my files...

Thank you for your input but I found a way to circumvent this on my own.
Desperation made me just delete the database dump in question and make a new one.
That solved the problem alltogether...