Re: pg_basebackup permission denied error

On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 6:27 AM, Shreeyansh Dba <shreeyansh2014(at)gmail(dot)com>
wrote:

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> On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 6:16 AM, Günce Kaya <guncekaya14(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
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>> Hello,
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>> I'm getting error when using pg_basebackup as bellow;
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>> pg_basebackup: could not create directory "/data": Permission denied
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>> I couldn't overcome with that problem. Any suggestion would be
>> appreciated.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Gunce Kaya
>>
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> Hi Gunce Kaya,
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> /data -- directory requires postgres user permission.
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> In addition to this, the user might not be a valid DB user having enough
privileges in order to perform backup having entry in pg_hba file.

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