On Tuesday 18 December 2007 10:38:29 am Nelson Serafica wrote: > I would like to ask about Amanda. Amanda are run as amanda user (right?) > both in local and remote. If files to backup has only root privilege only, > can still Amanda fetch the files? I have installed BackupPC and it is > great. Its like an rsync with GUI. The problem is for you to be able to > backup files owned by root, rsync must run by root. I don't allow root to > connect directly to any servers so I'm still looking for an alternative > apps. >
Amanda uses the Amanda user and the disk group. You also have to have the user amanda on the windows box for it to work correctly. So you don't need to have the root user exposed to the outside world. _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
