On Wed, Jan 01, 2003 at 11:58:27AM -0600, Kirk Strauser wrote: > 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?
-r-sr-x--- 1 root operator 18028 Dec 19 17:58 runtar Note the "s" in the permissions... -- Scott Lambert KC5MLE System Administrator Attention Customers: Refer-A-Friend and receive one month of service for free! For further details, please visit: http://inch.com/refer-a-friend/ or, call the Internet Channel billing department at (212) 243-5200.
