'Best practices' question for a backup

Kevin Cozens kcozens-qazKcTl6WRFWk0Htik3J/w at public.gmane.org
Sat Sep 24 04:39:42 UTC 2005


James Knott wrote:
> 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.

My sentiments exactly. Any backup program must respect file ownership and 
permissions.

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