How To Run Luckybackup Super User Cron Job Without Login

**Precipitous** · May 15th, 2012

Is there a way to run a Luckybackup Super User cron job without being prompted to log in? Ever since upgrading to Precise - the only way I can get Luckybackup to work properly is by running the Super User version instead of the regular one. The regular version acts as though it is running OK, but no new files get written to the location it is set to write to, and I get an rsync broken pipe error... The Super User version works perfectly.

**papibe** · May 16th, 2012

Hi Precipitous.

Are you backing up locally or to a remote host?

Regards.

**Precipitous** · May 16th, 2012

Originally Posted by papibe

Hi Precipitous.

Are you backing up locally or to a remote host?

Regards.

I am backing up locally to an external USB drive.

**papibe** · May 16th, 2012

It looks like a permissions problem.

Is it NTFS or something else? Remember that NTFS does not support users, and the permissions and ownership are set on the mount options.

Is it always mounted, or just for the backup? The command 'mount' requires root privileges (there is other ways to mount).

Do you have any directory set for privacy (like 000 permissions)? Even your user won't be able to write to those directories in case they are set that way.

Just some thoughts.
Regards.

**Precipitous** · May 17th, 2012

Originally Posted by papibe

It looks like a permissions problem.

Is it NTFS or something else? Remember that NTFS does not support users, and the permissions and ownership are set on the mount options.

Is it always mounted, or just for the backup? The command 'mount' requires root privileges (there is other ways to mount).

Do you have any directory set for privacy (like 000 permissions)? Even your user won't be able to write to those directories in case they are set that way.

Just some thoughts.
Regards.

The drive I am backing up to is formatted with ext4. The reason I am having to run Luckybackup Superuser is that ever since upgrading to Precise when I run Luckybackup as a regular user I get Rsync Broken Pipe errors and no files get written to the backup location. Running as Superuser everything works fine. Although I can easily run the backup manually I would like to be able to set it up as a Cron job that is totally automated. I just don't know how to do so without being prompted for a root login password.