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- From: wacker@AMPERE.PHYSIK.UNI-DORTMUND.DE (Klaus Wacker)
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- Subject: Re: backup methods
- Message-ID: <9301211419.AA22635@ampere.Physik.Uni-Dortmund.DE>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 15:03:51 GMT
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- In-Reply-To: <m0nF1nJ-000059C@zx1.hrz.uni-dortmund.de> from "Tom Merrick" at
- Jan 21, 93 01:14:05 pm
-
- Tom Merrick writes:
- >
- >
- > In article <9301210826.AA43894@ampere.Physik.Uni-Dortmund.DE>
- > wacker@AMPERE.PHYSIK.UNI-DORTMUND.DE (Klaus Wacker) writes:
- > >Jim Chivas Vancouver Community College writes:
- > >>
- > >>
- > >> Greetings:
- > >>
- > >> Does anyone have any methods to backup their systems that will let
- > >> someone other than root access to some or all file systems. How can
- > >> I give read access, assuming that is what is required, to someone
- > >> other than root.
- . . . . .
- > >
- > >I use sudo to achieve the above. I created a user named backup who is
- > >authorized to sudo one shell script, owned and maintained by root,
- > >which contains our standard backup procedure.
- > >
- . . . . .
- >
- > The question that I have is will sudo work across NFS mounted disks?
- > My experience shows that root owned programs will not work across NFS
- > mounted disks, so you need to su to root before backing these up.
- . . . . .
- >
- > Tom Merrick
- > Ohio State University
- >
-
- We use sudo to backup both NFS mounted and local file systems. It is
- of course necessary to export the file systems with root access, but
- if you didn't do that su root wouldn't help either. In fact, I never
- saw a difference regarding access to files between sudo and su root.
-
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