Why does backup fail with permission denied (in /var/backups)?

Question

My backup fails and shows this message:

Permission denied when trying to create
'/var/backups/duplicity-full.20140907T165614Z.vol1.difftar.gpg'

How do I remedy this?

Solution

Try change your backup location to your user folder /home/[username]/backup. Your existing user account might not have permission accessing the /var/backups. Otherwise, you can use chown and chmod command to make /var/backups folder accessible by your account.

Comments

[Lucio]

What are you using to backup?

[Eliah Kagan]

@Lucio Given the error message, presumably Duplicity is being used.

[guntbert]

Edit your question to show us the output of ls -ld /var/backups.