# Backup failed with permission denied
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/backup-failed-with-permission-denied/113923
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [10.Апрель.2019 04:56:55 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/backup-failed-with-permission-denied/113923 "2019-04-10T04:56:55Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@spongeleopard](https://meta.discourse.org/u/spongeleopard)
#### Post date: [10.Апрель.2019 04:56:56 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/backup-failed-with-permission-denied/113923/1 "2019-04-10T04:56:56Z")
I’ve been using Discourse successfully for a while now, but backups have all of a sudden stopped working.
Relevant line from the log is below. Not sure what would have caused this permission error to start happening from out of the blue. I was going to start mucking around, but thought I’d ask here if there was an easy known fix.
```
...
Making sure archive does not already exist...
[2019-04-10 03:44:45] Creating empty archive...
[2019-04-10 03:44:45] EXCEPTION: /var/www/discourse/lib/backup_restore/backuper.rb:225:in `create_archive':
tar: /var/www/discourse/public/backups/default/xxxx-forum-2019-04-10-034440-v20190306154335.tar:
Cannot open: Permission denied
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
```
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### Author:  [@Remah](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Remah)
#### Post date: [08.Декабрь.2020 00:41:53 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/backup-failed-with-permission-denied/113923/2 "2020-12-08T00:41:53Z")
У меня та же ошибка. Вы уже нашли решение?
Скорее всего, я смогу заняться этим только через пару дней.
Вот текст ошибки, где конфиденциальные данные заменены на ####:
```plaintext
[2020-12-07 22:43:42] EXCEPTION: lib/discourse.rb:92:in `exec': tar: /var/www/discourse/public/backups/default/XXXX-XXXX-2020-12-07-224327-v20201116132948.tar: Cannot open: Permission denied
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
```
Этот частный сайт работает на:
Discourse 2.7.0.beta1
Ubuntu 20.04
Digital Ocean
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### Author:  [@ahmed\_khan1](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ahmed_khan1)
#### Post date: [04.Март.2021 08:02:04 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/backup-failed-with-permission-denied/113923/3 "2021-03-04T08:02:04Z")
> [@Remah](#):
>
> использовалось для удаления личной информации:
У меня та же ошибка. Вы нашли решение?
