On Thursday 31 May 2007 10:24, Charles Duffy wrote: > This is a good reason to have rdiff-backup run as a non-root user under > normal conditions (such that when doing administrative commands as root, > your root-only buffer on the drive [you've left that turned on in the > filesystem options, right?] is available to allow the working space needed).
If you're backing up system files, you do want to run it as root, because non-root users might not be able to read some files. _______________________________________________ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users Wiki URL: http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki
