'Best practices' question for a backup

[Madison Kelly]

James Knott wrote:
> 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.

Thanks!

The actual 'rsync' call is performed as root so 'rsync' runs as root and 
should, in turn, be able to backup anything 'root' has access to. This 
still seems to skip directories and files though where global access is 
not set to at least readable.

Madison
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