Hello: I'm working on a backup and restore feature for our schoolservers, and I got stuck on home directories of laptops
The backup works like this.. based on the backup script provided by dsd, and also based on our specific features.. I placed all important data in a directory "/library/backup" (wich can later be tar, ziped, and in our case rsync-ed), and its being done by a cron job On a centralized backup server.. we have a script that PULLS the /library/backup of each server, so main configs are being saved without much hassle.. But when it comes to user directories, it lack permissions, because the /library/users/SN directory has no read permissions for others how would you recomend that we do this? My first thought was to simply just add recursive read permissions to the user folder.. but that doesn't take security in mind.. perhaps there's another way for now our pull works like this: r...@backupserver ~ $ rsync u...@schoolserver:/library/backup/ /backup/schoolserver/backup/ r...@backupserver ~ $ rsync u...@schoolserver:/library/users/ /backup/schoolserver/users/ r...@backupserver ~ $ rsync us...@schoolserver2:/library/backup/ /backup/schoolserver/backup/ r...@backupserver ~ $ rsync us...@schoolserver2:/library/users/ /backup/schoolserver/users/ Doing a push as a cron job from the server was a second idea, but the backup server does "other" things so security in the backup server is very important Any ideas? cheers.. -- Rodolfo
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