On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 2:03 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Amdump also succeeded. But we can't to be expected to add the backup
> user to _all_ groups, right?

Tar should be running via the setuid script, runtar, so it should have
root privs to back up anything.  The client-side amcheck checks do
*not* run with these privileges, so the top-level directory for each
DLE must be readable to the backup user.

Dustin

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