'Best practices' question for a backup

[James Knott]

Madison Kelly wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
>   I've run into an ethical/best practices question that I wanted input
> from as many people as I could get on. I have a backup program that is
> aimed to be generally available to the public. That said, I need to be
> careful how I tell the program to work. In this case though, either
> decision I think could upset someone. So....

My take on backups, is that the person doing the backup should have the
appropriate rights to the file they're backing up.  Otherwise, a backup
could be used to violate permissions.  If other than user files are to
be backed up, they should be done under root or other appropriate
permissions.
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