Setting up KBackup

[Bumpalot]

Have been using KBackup for several years & it works perfectly.
However I had to change the target folder to one on a USB Drive - Root>media>966.5 GIB Removable Media
Desired Backup Target Folder: Root>media>966.5 GIB Removable media/bumpy/Backups


KBackup file list : media/bumpyBF00-61C0/Kubuntu/Lost+Found


Am unable to delete:media/bumpy/*.*
[ATTACH=CONFIG]5966[/ATTACH

I suspect the problem may lie in permissions.

Am completely at a loss as to how to rectify this mess - your input would be most welcome!

[SecretCode]

I don't understand your post properly - are there some formatting errors?

KBackup file list : media/bumpyBF00-61C0/Kubuntu/Lost+Found

Why is Lost+Found capitalised when it isn't in your screenshot?
Why are you working with lost+found anyway, which is a reserved directory for fsck?

What is the full error message - and what are the permissions of the directory that can't be deleted?

[Bumpalot]

Obviously my previous attempt at setting up Kbackup was a mess!!
Starting again:
Successfully created Backup Files Location: Root>media>966.5 GIB Removable Media




Question: How do I change access permissions from Root, to my login name, bumpy?

[SecretCode]

It depends how you are mounting it. Is it attached all the time or only when you need to use it?

If you're letting KDE auto-mount it, what is your version of KDE?
If you use a command, post the command

Also, do you want to use this drive only ever for KBackup? - It might be better to have a subfolder as the KBackup target. Then you could just set the permissions of that folder as needed, using chown.

[Bumpalot]

USB drive attached all the time.
Not using KDE to auto mount.
I use this drive only for KBackup.
KBackup set to run on the USB drive.
I need to change the USB installed folder's permissions from Root to bumpy (my login name).
This drive is not used for anything else but my Backups. It has lots of room to store monthly folders, yearly.

[SecretCode]

So how are you mounting it? Via fstab, or via a mount command, or what?
Post, in code tags, the output of

mount

The root directory of the drive is pretty much always going to be owned by root in these cases, so as far as I can see (other people may have brighter ideas!) the simplest thing to do may be to create a subfolder

sudo mkdir /media/Backup_Files/kbackup
sudo chown bumpy:bumpy /media/Backup_Files/kbackup

and make that the target.

[Bumpalot]

Thanks for your prompt reply!
Over the last year, the root directory of the drive was owned by me-bumpy. So it was easy to create folders.
Your suggestion worked perfectly!!

bumpy@bumpputer:~$ mount
/dev/sda1 on / type ext4 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,nodev,noexec,nosuid)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,nodev,noexec,nosuid)
none on /sys/fs/cgroup type tmpfs (rw,uid=0,gid=0,mode=0755,size=1024)
none on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw)
none on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw)
none on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw)
udev on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=0620)
tmpfs on /run type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,size=10%,mode=0755)
none on /run/lock type tmpfs (rw,nodev,noexec,nosuid,size=5242880)
none on /run/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
none on /run/user type tmpfs (rw,nodev,noexec,nosuid,size=104857600,mode=0755)
none on /sys/fs/pstore type pstore (rw)
binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw,nodev,noexec,nosuid)
systemd on /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd type cgroup (rw,nosuid,noexec,nodev,none,name=systemd)
/dev/sdb1 on /media/Backup_Files type ext3 (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
bumpy@bumpputer:~$

Now you've made my day!!!

[Bumpalot]

Now I have another wrinkle to my previous reply:
Every time I open Dolphin File Manager, this is the result:

“The file or folder /media/Backup_Files/Backups/April_2015 does not exist.” refers to
yesterday when I deleted this & changed it to “/media/Backup_Files/Backups/April_2015/”
like so:
sudo mkdir /media/Backup_Files/kbackup
sudo chown bumpy:bumpy /media/Backup_Files/kbackup

On opening Dolphin File Manager again, the same result occurs as depicted above, but on clicking the X, the correct result occurs.


PROBLEM: The same complete sequence above occurs every time. How can I correct this?

[SecretCode]

Odd. Dolphin appears to be remembering a previous folder, that doesn't exist any more. Have a look in Settings > Configure Dolphin... - I think there's a setting for "remember last folder" or something like that. Mine is set to always open in my home folder.