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cmcanulty

Member

From: Beulah, Michigan

Registered: 2014-05-10

Posts: 284

grsync errors

Whenever I run grsync home backup I get errors on 2 files as permission denied

these are the 2 folders: /home/librarian/.cache/doc  and  /home/librarian/.gvfs

I understand these 2 are owned by root so I tried  workarounds

1) run grsync as superuser didn't work same error and

2) add --exclude option for these 2 folders  also same error

here are my 2 exclude options

--exclude '/home/librarian/.cache/doc'
--exclude '/home/librarian/.gvfs'

I use exclude options on other backups with no issues, what am I doing wrong? thank you

bggf

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Registered: 2026-04-13

Posts: 21

Re: grsync errors

I don't use the software myself, but I saw:
https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxquestions … t_working/
(last entry)

eriefisher

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From: ON, Canada

Registered: 2008-10-25

Posts: 964

Re: grsync errors

There should be no file/folders in your /home directory owned by root.

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bggf

Member

Registered: 2026-04-13

Posts: 21

Re: grsync errors

I'm not sure where these files are comming from exactly, but they are no root files  . They are fuse mount points
The OP's "I understand these 2 are owned by root" is probably an assumption:

".gvfs" has something todo with gvfs mounts. Don't know too much about it..
"/.cache/doc" is a flatpak folder/mount point for flatpak to exchange files with the OS. It should disappear when stopping the flatpak application that created it, but there were some applications that didn't do this (or something like that, it will be reset if stopping the flatpak deamon or so I remember correctly). I remember issues with df or du programs...

I am curious if the link I sent solved the case. According to the info in the blog grsync would handle the "--exclude" parameter relative to the local dir, so excluding "/home/librarian/.gvfs", IF run from the user's home directory, would result in an exclusion pattern of "/home/librarian/home/librarian/.gvfs". According to this the correct exclude should be ".gvfs" (assuming the program is started from $HOME), but there has been no feedback...perhaps grsync has issues with hidden (.filename) files?