Oh, my bad. I'm sorry for asking a slightly wrong question.
I am using smbmount for the backup. There's no notion of multiple
machines here, just one. The backup server mounts folders on client
and performs the backup as a local folder.
smbmount requires the mount-er to be root (unless setuid, and I dont
exactly know if there's any sec. issue with that). Amanda sees
everything under the mounted folder as owned by the mount-er, root.
Of course then all file permissions and ownership right are root.
This is just a simple and dirty way to back up data on client. We plan
this because the client has only one folder that needs backed up.
I guess there's no simple way other than installing Amanda on clients.
Thanks for your reply.
Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
On Fri, 7 Mar 2003 at 1:19pm, bao wrote
amrestore allows to pipe to tar, and thus we can set it to preserve the
file owner + permissions.
Does anyone know how to do this with amrecover???
amrecover does the pipe to tar for you, and thus does the preservation.
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