hello i had a well known problem, but no idea how to build a "correct" solution.
we have a lot of linux and bsd servers at our isp. i have to backup data from these systems to a remote system. the backup server (storage server) has access to remote systems (data sources) over ssh and public key auth (a user named backup exists on all systems). my problem, this user has no access to some files in /etc, /usr/local/etc, and so on. so what to do? i build a script that runs locally on all system over root cronjob. the script backs up all data in a tar file on the local machine. my problem now i had to transfer the whole tar archive (on some systems over 8 GB) to my backupserver every day twice (packup period). is there a way with rdiff-backup to start rdiff-backup on remote machine with root access (by sudo)? thanks a lot regards marco
