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

The lock file in the log directory is what was causing this error for me. I was able to clear the error by deleting the lock file:

rm /var/log/redis/lock.

This happened when another system was restored to this one while redis was still running.