Running 14.2-X86_64 on this server. I installed dirvish vaults for backups in /media/bkup1/ which has 777 perms. Each vault/subdirectory is owned by roor.toot and has 751 perms. In each vault is the text file default.conf with 644 perms.

I'm trying to initialize the vaults, starting with salmo-data1/ using the command, `dirvish --init --vault salmo-data1` and rather than making a copy of /data1 into that vault the message "cannot open config file: default.conf" is returned.

I'm totally stymied understanding why dirvish cannot read that file. I need suggestions and recommendations on finding the source of the problem it it's not permissions.

TIA,

Rich

I am wondering if other Slackware users use this old application... I was about to suggest that you request help in their mailing list, but you already did. Only thing I can suggest is to read their documentation listed in https://dirvish.org/docs.html. Or, of course use a more recent and maintained backup application like restic. It is only available on https://slackbuilds.org for Slackware 15.0 but maybe you could reuse the SlackBuild for 14.2.

Do you run dirvish as root?

My dirvish restoration notes did not include the fact that the default.conf vile belongs in a dirvish/ subdirectory, not the main vault directory. Fixed now.

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