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

If anyone encounters this again and doesn't have a problem upgrading, just upgrade your Redis installation to the latest version. I encountered this problem with Redis 2.8.15, and upgraded to Redis 2.8.22 that was available at the time of this writing. A sysadmin in my company assured me that this was a bug with Redis 2.8.15, and the problem just went away after upgrading.