Garbage Collector Task Error

schmeckles23

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Hello,

I'll be honest I have installed Proxmox Backup and setup the remote and started backing up, haven't played around with it too much but get emails to warn me that garbage collection has failed so I thought it would be time to try and fix this.

I have chown'ed the directory and it still says permission denied.


Code:
2021-01-18T20:59:26+00:00: starting garbage collection on store backups
2021-01-18T20:59:26+00:00: Start GC phase1 (mark used chunks)
2021-01-18T20:59:26+00:00: TASK ERROR: cannot continue garbage-collection safely, permission denied on: /var/lib/private

If I check "ls -lh" they are owned by root user, if I delete the directories and recreate while logged into the user it will go to the next error, I have deleted and recreated over 20 directories and it seems never ending, the next error was below.

Code:
2021-01-18T21:05:51+00:00: starting garbage collection on store backups
2021-01-18T21:05:51+00:00: Start GC phase1 (mark used chunks)
2021-01-18T21:05:51+00:00: TASK ERROR: cannot continue garbage-collection safely, permission denied on: /var/spool/postfix/bounce

This was a fresh ISO install from Proxmox website with little to no edits, simply logged in and started backups with the Web GUI.

Any help here would be great.
 
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