Cheers!
Piers
Michael Heironimus wrote: > On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 01:24:45AM +0100, Piers Kittel wrote: > >>Bascially, I've got 2 computers, one which is my main PC (named desire), >>and the other is a server (named destiny). I'd like the server to >>backup the /home/piers directory from the main PC. The server is >>accessing the main PC by NFS and desire:/home is moutned on >>destiny:/home/desire. I've put in the following line in the crontab >>file on destiny: >> >>00 4 * * 0 root rm -f /home/desirebackup/home_backup.tar; tar cf >>/home/desirebackup/home_backup.tar /home/desire/piers >> >>but when I tested out the "tar cf /home/desirebackup/home_backup.tar >>/home/desire/piers" I get a lot of "Permissions denied" errors although >>some files are read OK. (An example is "tar: /home/desire/piers/.mcoprc: >>Read error at byte 0, reading 31 byes: Permission denied") > > > It looks like you're using root to run your backup. Normally root is > remapped to nobody ("root squashing") on NFS mounts for security > reasons, so root won't have permission to read files that aren't > world-readable. In the /etc/exports file on the server you can add the > no_root_squash option to allow root access on an exported filesystem. > See the man page on exports for details. >
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