On 5/9/20 3:56 am, Reco wrote:
or do the backups as root,
Nothing wrong with this approach, see below.
Preferable to have only root have the ability to change the backup.
Perhaps have some trusted users in a group that can read them, for
retrieval purposes.
If an user needs to be able to
On 2020-09-04 10:37, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm still working on my backup system, and setting up mount points.
You might want to consider ZFS and zfs-auto-snapshot -- backups are
automatic and immutable, and restores are self-serve.
David
On Fri, 4 Sep 2020 13:37:07 -0400
rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
> Is there a simple way to have the mounted filesystem be owned by the
> user that mounts it?
Have the user execute an appropriate script, and get the uid and gid
from the environment:
uid=$(grep ${USER} /etc/passwd | cut -d: -f 3)
Hi.
On Fri, Sep 04, 2020 at 01:37:07PM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
> I'm still working on my backup system, and setting up mount points.
>
> I was hoping that if I used "user" (or "users") in the mount command (or in
> /etc/fstab) that the mounted filesystem would be owned by the
On Fri, Sep 04, 2020 at 01:37:07PM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
> I was hoping that if I used "user" (or "users") in the mount command (or in
> /etc/fstab) that the mounted filesystem would be owned by the user that
> mounted
> it. That doesn't (seem to) work.
It's not supposed to. The
I'm still working on my backup system, and setting up mount points.
I was hoping that if I used "user" (or "users") in the mount command (or in
/etc/fstab) that the mounted filesystem would be owned by the user that mounted
it. That doesn't (seem to) work.
I could do things like give write
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