Re: Gnutar and permission == skipped files?
2003-01-02 11:27:27
On Wed, Jan 01, 2003 at 11:58:27AM -0600, Kirk Strauser wrote:
> I'm using Amanda on a mixed network of Linux and FreeBSD machines. The
> default installation of Amanda on FreeBSD defines --with-user=operator and
> --with-group=operator . It occurs to me that I have many files that aren't
> world-readable. Can tar backup these files? Wouldn't it be running as
> operator and not root?
>
> My disk devices are owned by operator, so using dump instead of tar should
> catch everything, but I'd been persuaded that dump is bad for backing up
> live filesystems on Linux and FreeBSD. Have I migrated away from that
> utility at the expense of skipping the non-world-readble files on my system,
> many of which are the most important files on my network?
-r-sr-x--- 1 root operator 18028 Dec 19 17:58 runtar
Note the "s" in the permissions...
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