On 1 Jan 2003 at 11:58am, 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?
Amanda uses a suid wrapper to run tar as root when making backups. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
