I'm using Amanda on a mixed network of Linux and FreeBSD machines. The default installation of Amanda on FreeBSD defines --with-user=operator and --with-group=operator . It occurs to me that I have many files that aren't world-readable. Can tar backup these files? Wouldn't it be running as operator and not root?
My disk devices are owned by operator, so using dump instead of tar should catch everything, but I'd been persuaded that dump is bad for backing up live filesystems on Linux and FreeBSD. Have I migrated away from that utility at the expense of skipping the non-world-readble files on my system, many of which are the most important files on my network? -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est.
