Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Remote backup server without root and rdiff-backup?

[David Kempe]

Jens Benecke wrote:
> Will permissions etc. be preserved for restoring if I do something like
>
>         rdiff-backup --exclude /BACKUP / /BACKUP
>         rsync -avze ssh /BACKUP address@hidden:/home/user/
>
> although I'm not root on the remote machine? If disaster happens, would I be
> able to rsync everything back to my local machine into /BACKUP, and then
> call 
>         rdiff-backup -r /BACKUP /
>
> (or something like that)?

Yeah I think that will work fine. rdiff-backup in the 0.13 series stores 
its metadata (like permissions) in a seperate file. This means that your 
plan should work fine. I don't recommend backing up / completely - you 
can find lots about that in the archives.
Thanks for updating the wiki :)

dave