Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} backups... still backups....
Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2013 20:34:22
Message-Id: 20130630213408.3e9cba96@digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} backups... still backups.... by Grant
1 On Sun, 30 Jun 2013 13:12:29 -0700, Grant wrote:
2
3 > > You have to grant root rsync access to the backuppc user on the
4 > > server.
5 >
6 > Isn't that a gaping security hole? I think this amounts to granting
7 > the backup server root read access (and write access if you want to
8 > restore) on each client?
9
10 How can you backup system files without root read access? You are granting
11 this to s specific user, one without a login shell, on the server.
12
13 You don;t need to grant write access if you don't want to. BackupPC has
14 an option to restore to a tar or zip archive, which you can manually
15 restore.
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18 --
19 Neil Bothwick
20
21 It's no use crying over spilt milk -- it only makes it salty for the cat.

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