From: Les M. <le...@fu...> - 2005-05-13 19:40:38
|
On Thu, 2005-05-12 at 17:25, Patrick Friedel wrote: > I've checked the docs, but I don't see anything specific about this - > I'm backing up localhost which has an NFS-mounted home directory. > Obviously, the backuppc user can't read files which aren't world > readable. Me, I was willing to ignore this, since 99% of the files it > can't read are dotfiles and various other cruft, but my boss wants to > make sure we have _everything_ in the event of a disaster. Reasonable > enough, I guess. But I can't find anything that would let backuppc run > as any sort of priviledged user that would be able to read everything on > localhost. Am I missing something basic here? The obvious way would be to do a network backup directly from the NFS server, assuming that is some reasonably unix-like machine and you can arrange root ssh permissions. You could also do a network backup to localhost to raise your privileges to root. I think a command involving sudo was posted to the list some time ago to allow local backups without the overhead of the network but I've forgotten the details. -- Les Mikesell le...@fu... |