[SOLVED] Trying To Back Up To USB With Deja Dup And This Keeps Happening

Mark7 · 02-12-2022, 05:24 AM

Quote:

Error creating directory /media/mark/Back Up/mark-HP-EliteBook-8460p: Permission denied

WHY!!!!?????

Mark7 · 02-12-2022, 05:27 AM

I'm using the latest version of Ubuntu (indigo impala?). This didn't happen on the version I was using before (last LTS).

ondoho · 02-12-2022, 06:01 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mark7

WHY!!!!?????

It's telling you why:
Permission denied.
Please show us

Code:

ls -l "/media/mark/Back Up/mark-HP-EliteBook-8460p"
ls -l "/media/mark/Back Up"
ls -l "/media/mark"

Mark7 · 02-12-2022, 06:15 AM

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ls -l "/media/mark/Back Up/mark-HP-EliteBook-8460p"
ls: cannot access '/media/mark/Back Up/mark-HP-EliteBook-8460p': No such file or directory

Quote:

ls -l "/media/mark/Back Up"
total 16
drwx------ 2 root root 16384 Feb 12 11:12 lost+found

Quote:

ls -l "/media/mark"
total 4
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Feb 12 11:12 'Back Up'
mark@mark-HP-EliteBook-8460p:~$

...

ondoho · 02-12-2022, 07:02 AM

Is there anything on /media/mark?

If not, you might want to do this:

Code:

sudo chown -R mark:mark /media/mark

If yes:

Code:

sudo chown -R mark:mark "/media/mark/Back Up"

That is assuming that your group is mark as well as your user. You can find out with

Code:

ls -ld ~

PS: please use CODE tags for code, output and such (see my signature) - not quote tags.

Mark7 · 02-12-2022, 07:06 AM

There's a folder called lost+found.

Can't access it.

ondoho · 02-12-2022, 07:06 AM

Doesn't matter.
Do what I just posted.

fatmac · 02-12-2022, 07:28 AM

You might want to lose the space in that path name, Linux doesn't like them.

Mark7 · 02-12-2022, 08:03 AM

Working now. Thanks ondoho