Backup Central

Hi -

I want to back my entire server up to a remote site. On the remote site
I dont want to use a user with any special privileges. Whilst I
obviously need to have enough privs on the machine to be backed up to be
able to read all files, do the user privs on the remote machine actually
matter? I suppose what I'm asking is are the ownership/perms details
stored as metadata with the actual backups being stored (and owned by)
the backup user, or are these details reflected in the backup files
themselves (using standard ownership/perms).

Thanks

Marcus

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Marcus Williams -- http://www.cad-schroer.co.uk
CAD Schroer UK, 39 Newnham Road, Cambridge, UK

Marcus Williams <marcus < at > quintic.co.uk>
wrote the following on Thu, 01 Dec 2005 11:37:53 +0000

I want to back my entire server up to a remote site. On the remote
site I dont want to use a user with any special privileges. Whilst I
obviously need to have enough privs on the machine to be backed up
to be able to read all files, do the user privs on the remote
machine actually matter? I suppose what I'm asking is are the
ownership/perms details stored as metadata with the actual backups
being stored (and owned by) the backup user, or are these details
reflected in the backup files themselves (using standard
ownership/perms).

The ownership/permissions are stored in a metadata file, so it's
unnecessary for the backup files themselves to have matching
ownership/perms.

However, rdiff-backup will do its best to give those backup files the
same attributes. For instance, if you run as root on the destination
system, the uid/gid of the backup files will match the source system.


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Ben Escoto