[PLUG] Backup problems (urgent)

[Patrick J. Timlick]

I don't see why it would be a disaster later.  You can always change them
the way you want when your backup is complete. Failing that, what does ls
-l  /media/Movies/Backup_8.17.14 say. also sudo fdisk -l . We will get you
through this..

-- Pat


On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 9:38 PM, John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net>
wrote:

> On Sun, 17 Aug 2014 21:02:47 -0700
> Ken Stephens <kens at cad2cam.com> dijo:
>
> >John Jason Jordan wrote:
> >> I have spent th past hour trying to make a backup of my Home to an
> >> external device and continue to fail. My Home folder is on a separate
> >> partition, /dev/sdb2.The problem is that I cannot boot to the
> >> installation and must boot to a live media. I have tried Xubuntu
> >> 14.04.1 and Knoppix 7.2, both of which will happily mount the
> >> devices, but refuse to allow me to write to them, even when mounted
> >> as root and when I run the cp command as root. I realize the problem
> >> is that the live media OS doesn't own the data, but there must be a
> >> way to copy the data to an external drive. What is the secret?
>
> >Is there a mechanical interlock on the external drive?
>
> No. It is an external USB drive.
>
> >Have you tried sudo mount -o remount,rw "filesystem" to your target
> >drive?
>
> I just tried it. The following commands executed without error (both
> drives were already mounted, and the folders in /media had already been
> created)
>
> sudo mount -o remount,rw /dev/sdb2 /media/Home2
> sudo mount -o remount,rw /dev/sdc /media/Movies
>
> But when I try to copy anything from /media/Home2
> to /media/Movies/Backup_8.17.14 it fails because it cannot create
> folders in /media/Movies/Backup_8.17.14 ("permission denied").
>
> i believe the problem is ownership, but if I change the ownership of the
> files in /dev/sdb2 it will be a disaster later.
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