Hi Maudro,

On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 08:11:39PM +0200, Mauro Condarelli wrote:

> this question should be beaten to death by now, but I'm unable to find a
> solution (shame on me!).
> 
> I have an ubuntu/linux server with attached storage where I installed
> BackupPC via apt.
> 
> I used the default "backuppc" unprivileged user.
> 
> I need to backup some remote shares and this works Ok using either smb
> or rsync (depending on the O.S. of the remote machine).
> 
> I also need to backup some directories that are on the local machine and
> I used 'tar', but this does not work because some parts of the things I
> need to backup are not world-readable. How should I set-up things so
> backuppc gets enough privileges to read whatever?

Either use a special sudo command or just use tar over ssh to backup
locally.

Bye,

Tino.

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