User permissions

[Bob Hutchinson]

On Friday 05 May 2006 14:37, Chris Boyd wrote:
> I'm trying to follow the tutorial on using rsync with ssh/cron.
> Implimenting the no password method. It says not to use root and create a
> user. The question is, if I am mirroring home directors how do I give this
> user the proper permissions?

If you want to back up all of /home then you will have to do so as root, or 
create a home on the backup machine for each user, with the same uid/gid, 
make a key for each and run a cron for each. ugh.

Have a look at rsnapshot, supports rsync over ssh and makes incremental 
backups very easy to manage.

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