On 11/11 02:43 , Frank J. Gómez wrote: > Paranoid person that I am, I followed the instructions here ( > http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/localhost.html) to run tar in a way that > would not allow the backuppc user to become root.
Is there a reason you're using tar rather than rsync? I run rsync-over-ssh without root access (using sudo in the host key on the remote side). I do realize there are cases where tar is faster tho. -- Carl Soderstrom Systems Administrator Real-Time Enterprises www.real-time.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Centralized Desktop Delivery: Dell and VMware Reference Architecture Simplifying enterprise desktop deployment and management using Dell EqualLogic storage and VMware View: A highly scalable, end-to-end client virtualization framework. Read more! http://p.sf.net/sfu/dell-eql-dev2dev _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/