On 22/12/11 12:39, Sharon Kimble wrote: > On 22 December 2011 00:59, Scott Ferguson > <prettyfly.producti...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On 22/12/11 11:26, Sharon Kimble wrote: >>> I have an external usb hard drive that I use solely for storing >>> backups which are done every three hours of my home folder. It >>> is 'owned' by root, but I want to have the user boztu to have >>> ownership of it so that boztu can write to it from their cron >>> backup program, but how do I do it please? >>> >>> At the moment root writes to it at midnight and creates a new >>> dated folder, because only root has write access to it. Then >>> every three hours boztu writes to it and backs up the changes in >>> the home folder, but I want user boztu to do =all= of it >>> including creating the new dated folder. >>> >>> Does this make sense? >>> >>> Sharon. >> >> Assuming you mount it somewhere beneath /media, and that SOLID (or >> whatever) is set to mount the drive there everytime >> >> # chown -R boztu:boztu /media/somewhere > > Thanks Scott for this. As the drive is owned by root should it be run > as sudo?
The # means run the command as root - saves me asking whether you use sudo. My apologies for:- ;presuming you'd understand my shorthand ;forgetting that others read the list. > Thinking logically, yes, so I'm running it as sudo accordingly, and > its got just over five months of backups to chomp its way through! > :) Saves discovering boztu has less rights than root! ;-p Still shouldn't take more than a few minutes to run through. You might want to consider incremental backups during the day - and a complete backup at the end of each day if space is going to become a problem. Once you've finished changing the permissions for the directory you're backing up to (/media/somewhere) it will be owned by boztu, but still writable by root, (and remain owned by boztu). There are other ways to achieve similar results but they involve group permissions I'm not comfortable with. > > Thanks Sharon. Cheers (and happy solstice season) -- Iceweasel/Firefox extensions for finding answers to Debian questions:- https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/collections/Scott_Ferguson/debian/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4ef29041.9020...@gmail.com
