>>>>> Marcus Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>>> wrote the following on Thu, 01 Dec 2005 11:37:53 +0000 > > I want to back my entire server up to a remote site. On the remote > site I dont want to use a user with any special privileges. Whilst I > obviously need to have enough privs on the machine to be backed up > to be able to read all files, do the user privs on the remote > machine actually matter? I suppose what I'm asking is are the > ownership/perms details stored as metadata with the actual backups > being stored (and owned by) the backup user, or are these details > reflected in the backup files themselves (using standard > ownership/perms).
The ownership/permissions are stored in a metadata file, so it's unnecessary for the backup files themselves to have matching ownership/perms. However, rdiff-backup will do its best to give those backup files the same attributes. For instance, if you run as root on the destination system, the uid/gid of the backup files will match the source system. -- Ben Escoto
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