Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Re: Re: rdiff-backup when disk is full (was: Re: Trace when listing backup and not enough permissions)

[Charles Duffy]

Wiebe Cazemier wrote:
> On Sunday 03 June 2007 09:16, Charles Duffy wrote:
>   
> > Granted -- but I still see the security issues implicit with running
> > rdiff-backup as root on the server as a far greater liability than the
> > benefit of not needing the tool to restore.
> >     
>
> You can't be root on the server when there is no server; when you're backing up
> to a local disk (to have an easy backup with retention).
>   

Local backups are a special case, and I'll grant that they're 
considerably less security-sensitive.

That said, backing up to a local disk does not necessarily imply not 
having a server. Just set your --remote-schema command to change to a 
different user (su, sudo, chpst, whatever) before invoking rdiff-backup 
--server, and there you are.