This is true and I would not do it on a production server, just my home PC and laptop.

Charles Duffy wrote:
Gavin wrote:
Yes but if you do have root on server permissions are set correctly so the mirror is more useful and rdiff-backup is not needed to view/retrieve the files with correct owner+permissions.
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.



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