Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 19:19:02 +0200 From: Gabriel Ambuehl <gabriel_ambuehl@buz.ch> To: Ruben de Groot <mail25@bzerk.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re[2]: Read only access to ALL files? Or: how do I safely backup the complete system to an offsite machine? Message-ID: <4710007355.20041029191902@buz.ch> In-Reply-To: <20041029142042.GA14912@ei.bzerk.org> References: <689835538.20041029142356@buz.ch> <20041029142042.GA14912@ei.bzerk.org>
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Hello Ruben, Friday, October 29, 2004, 4:20:42 PM, you wrote: >> Or maybe someone knows of a rsync version that is safe to be run a >> suid root as it won't ever change anything on the filesystem? > Users in the group "operators" have read-only access to the raw > disk-devices in /dev. These devices are used by dump(8). > All other backup strategies (tar, cpio, rsync, ..) work on the > filesystem itself rather than the underlying device and will need > root access. Now if only dump would be of any use for backups over slow links. Ah well, I'm gonna come up with some hack, eventually ;-) Best regards, Gabriel
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