Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2008 15:36:17 -0400 From: Jeff Dickens <jeff@m2.seamanpaper.com> To: z.szalbot@lc-words.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dump and remote file fetching Message-ID: <484991B1.3050400@m2.seamanpaper.com> In-Reply-To: <483C8060.2070003@lc-words.com> References: <483C8060.2070003@lc-words.com>
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Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: > Hello, > > Need a word of advice. I use dump to backup my data. All fine. Dump > saves compressed *.bz2 files. Nice. All I need now is a way to copy > them from the server to a remote backup machine. The problem I am > facing is that bz2 files are owned by root:wheel. So if I use scp > user@domain.tld:/path/to/*.bz2, it does not have sufficient > permissions to fetch the files. I can use sudo, but then I need to > interactively type the password, which I would like to avoid. > Add user "user" to a group "xyz". Arrange for dump files to get group "xyz" and permissions g+w. You can probably do this by changing the group of the directory the dumps are written into and setting the sticky bit. > Can you suggest simple ways of getting around this? I don't mind using > special tools for the job, especially if they are not too > complicated... :) > > Before firing this email off I took a look at rsync and it seems easy > enough to do just what I need but still many thanks for suggestions! > >
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