Wiebe Cazemier wrote:
On Sunday 03 June 2007 09:16, Charles Duffy wrote:
Granted -- but I still see the security issues implicit with running
rdiff-backup as root on the server as a far greater liability than the
benefit of not needing the tool to restore.
You can't be root on the server when there is no server; when you're backing up
to a local disk (to have an easy backup with retention).
Local backups are a special case, and I'll grant that they're
considerably less security-sensitive.
That said, backing up to a local disk does not necessarily imply not
having a server. Just set your --remote-schema command to change to a
different user (su, sudo, chpst, whatever) before invoking rdiff-backup
--server, and there you are.
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