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Is it possible to only use tar without using SSH?

Thanks,
Han Lin

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hanlim writes:

Is it possible to only use tar without using SSH?

Yes, assuming you want to just backup local files. Just edit the
relevant config commands and remove ssh. See the comments for
$Conf{TarClientCmd}.

But if you just run tar then it might not have the permissions
to read all the files. You can use sudo to elevate the uid.

Craig


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Thanks Craig,

I managed to run it perfectly now.

I found that some of the file was not backed up, especially those files
with the permission 600 and only belong to root. I run the BackupPC
under "www" user.

Any way to back them up too?

Thanks.

Regards,
Han Lin

On Wed, 2004-06-23 at 15:27, Craig Barratt wrote:
hanlim writes:

Is it possible to only use tar without using SSH?

Yes, assuming you want to just backup local files. Just edit the
relevant config commands and remove ssh. See the comments for
$Conf{TarClientCmd}.

But if you just run tar then it might not have the permissions
to read all the files. You can use sudo to elevate the uid.

Craig

On Wed, 2004-06-23 at 09:06, Han Lin TEH wrote:

I managed to run it perfectly now.

Did you check the timing to see if it is worth the effort compared
to running ssh even to the localhost?

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Han Lin TEH writes:

I managed to run it perfectly now.

I found that some of the file was not backed up, especially those files
with the permission 600 and only belong to root. I run the BackupPC
under "www" user.

Any way to back them up too?

Well, that's the whole point. If tar doesn't run as root, then
it can't read 0600 files owned by root. So you need to run tar
as root. To do that you can use ssh or sudo.

See: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/localhost.html

Craig


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Hi Craig,

Yes, I already run tar with sudo as per FAQ recommend, but the sudo is
only allow 'www' user to use /bin/gtar and not to read the 600
permission.

Regards,
Han Lin

On Thu, 2004-06-24 at 00:12, Craig Barratt wrote:
Han Lin TEH writes:

I managed to run it perfectly now.

I found that some of the file was not backed up, especially those files
with the permission 600 and only belong to root. I run the BackupPC
under "www" user.

Any way to back them up too?

Well, that's the whole point. If tar doesn't run as root, then
it can't read 0600 files owned by root. So you need to run tar
as root. To do that you can use ssh or sudo.

See: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/localhost.html

Craig


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