re: rsyncing as root when root login is disabled?

Joe Ruby wrote: I'm trying to do a simple rsync: rsync -av admin at mydomain.com:/backup . But a number of files in /backup are readable only by root, and hence rsync gives these errors: sync: send_files failed to open /backup/etc/mail/virtusertable.db: Permission denied (13) Since

rsyncing as root when root login is disabled?

I'm trying to do a simple rsync: rsync -av [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/backup . But a number of files in /backup are readable only by root, and hence rsync gives these errors: sync: send_files failed to open /backup/etc/mail/virtusertable.db: Permission denied (13) Since root login is disabled, I can't