Resticprofile: user is not allowed to create a system job: please restart resticprofile as root (with sudo)

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I’ve been using restic via resticprofile for months however after a recent laptop swap and OS reinstall I can no longer schedule backups, I have the following versions:

restic 0.18.0 compiled with go1.24.1 on linux/amd64
resticprofile version 0.30.0 commit aab1a70d8db21f041299ad9a8d5b69ee98f3b4ae

The error is clear

me@laptop:~/bin$ ./resticprofile -n nas schedule
2025/04/16 06:31:25 using configuration file: profiles.toml
2025/04/16 06:31:25 error creating job nas/backup: user is not allowed to create a system job: please restart resticprofile as root (with sudo)

But my problem is that the profile.toml file is unchanged from when it worked and specifies user permissions. Manual backups work fine.

  [nas.backup]
    inherit = "default"
    tag = [ "NAS" ]
    schedule = "*:05,25,45"
    schedule-permission = "user"

Any suggestions for how to troubleshoot?

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Maybe by seeking help with their community? Your issue has nothing to do with restic…

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(I am not familiar with Discourse, however if technically feasible, maybe an other approach would be to detect offtopic keywords like “resticprofile” while the person is typing his question, and display a nice warning on the right pane, where usually similar topics are listed. A lot of nice people will again come over here in good faith to ask question about what they genuinely believe relates to this forum while it does not.)