# Backup failed with permission denied

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/backup-failed-with-permission-denied/113923>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [April 10, 2019, 4:56am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/backup-failed-with-permission-denied/113923 "2019-04-10T04:56:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![Remah](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/remah/32/70590_2.png) [@Remah](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Remah)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2020, 12:41am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/backup-failed-with-permission-denied/113923/2 "2020-12-08T00:41:53Z")

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I’m having the same exception. Did you get a fix?

I probably won’t get to investigate further for a couple of days.

Here’s the exception with #### used to edit out private info:

```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

```

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