It also means running the backups as root. Running as root in a root squash environment is risky. In my case the (read-only snapshot of the) source is considered broken if there are unreadable files, so I have no grounds for a security exception.
I want the option to have the backup complete with a warning instead of stop part way thru with an error. I realize that the current behavior is the correct default. -Allen Sent from my iPad On Feb 2, 2013, at 11:09, [email protected] wrote: > > Hi. > > On Fri, 11 Jan 2013 03:08:13 +0100 Allen Supynuk wrote: > >> To make matters worse, the file is on a read-only snapshot mounted >> through NFS. In any case root squash is in effect, so super-user is >> out. > > Why not mounting this no_root_squash? > > Is it not wrong to have partial archives (missing unreadable files) in > your case? > > -- > [email protected] -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
