On 14 Aug 2006, at 20:37, Henning Brauer wrote:

there an established method for keeping privileges lower when doing dumps, i.e.

add a user who can dump and not using root to do this?

you don't need root to do backups, a member of group operator is
sufficient. we add a special backup user to each machine and restrict
the access via ssh key a fair little bit more, like

I presume root is need for tar, as it need file permissions ?


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AlanP