Redis: Failed opening .rdb for saving: Permission denied

Question

I have a redis server 2.8 installed using ubuntu apt-get on ubuntu 12.04.

I have copied a dump.rdb from an other database. Now when I try to start the new server, I

Answer 1

My /lib/system/systemd/redis-server.service file contained the following:

ReadOnlyDirectories=/
ReadWriteDirectories=-/var/lib/redis

My /etc/redis/redis.conf file stated that the database should be located in /data/redis

dir /data/redis

The systemd config file above effectively makes /data/redis read-only.

Once I changed the redis.conf file to read:

dir /var/lib/redis

I stopped getting the error.