On 2006/03/22 13:24, Marco Fretz wrote: > my problem, this user has no access to some files > in /etc, /usr/local/etc, and so on. so what to do?
Give the user read-access to those files...? > 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). If you're compressing the tar, stop doing that, and give the delta compression (rsync-type algorithms) a chance to work. > is there a way with rdiff-backup to start rdiff-backup on remote machine > with root access (by sudo)? Yes, see rdiff-backup's manual page ('remote operation' section).