On 2006/03/22 13:24, Marco Fretz wrote:
> my problem, this user has no access to some files
> in /etc, /usr/local/etc, and so on. so what to do?
Give the user read-access to those files...?
> my problem now i had to transfer the whole tar archive (on some systems
> over 8 GB) to my backupserver every day twice (packup period).
If you're compressing the tar, stop doing that, and give the delta
compression (rsync-type algorithms) a chance to work.
> is there a way with rdiff-backup to start rdiff-backup on remote machine
> with root access (by sudo)?
Yes, see rdiff-backup's manual page ('remote operation' section).
