Thanks for the replies.

Here are the relevant permissions in the /home directory:
drwxr-x---  7 backuppc backuppc  4096 2009-10-20 00:07 backuppc
drwxr-xr-x 12 george   users     4096 2009-10-20 14:56 george
drwxrwxrwt 10 root     users     4096 2009-10-18 20:48 storage

Everyone would appear to have read access to the directories I am trying to 
back up.

Here are the permissions on the /etc/backuppc directory:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   414 2007-02-07 07:46 apache.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 64444 2009-10-19 23:26 config.pl
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  2238 2007-02-07 07:46 hosts
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     0 2009-10-19 22:19 htgroup
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    23 2009-10-19 23:01 htpasswd
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   427 2007-02-07 07:46 localhost.pl

Again it appears that everybody should be able to read them...

I'm wondering if I have missed something more basic...

Cheers/Merci
George

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