Kup and restore information: permission error

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Hello all,

in order to set up a laptop with Debian 13 and KDE Plasma for my dad, I’m testing kup as backup solution. For this test, I’m using an exFAT formatted USB stick. The backup works, but if I check the option for storing recovery information, it fails with the message:

kup did not successfully complete the bup backup job: failed to generate recovery info

It seems that the reason for that is a PermissionError (‘Operation not permitted’).

I’m not sure what exactly the problem is. Should I use different file system on the usb drive?

As I said, this is Debian 13 with KDE Plasma 6.3.6.

Thanks!
Martin

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Just a quick guess, but it is probably because exFAT doesn’t have any of the filesystem features needed for this sort of operation.

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Yes, indeed, with xfs it seems to work. Thanks!