Re: Newbie problems

2007-06-02 Thread Matt McCutchen
On 6/2/07, Boniforti Flavio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 6/2/07, Matt McCutchen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You should set both to root so that the server (more properly called a > daemon) has the power to set the ownership of the backup files. > Otherwise, the daemon will silently skip setting

Re: Newbie problems

2007-06-02 Thread Boniforti Flavio
On 6/2/07, Matt McCutchen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How should I be setting "uid" and "gid" in the server's conf file? You should set both to root so that the server (more properly called a daemon) has the power to set the ownership of the backup files. Otherwise, the daemon will silently ski

Re: Newbie problems

2007-06-01 Thread Matt McCutchen
On 5/28/07, Boniforti Flavio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I want to back-up my PC's /home directory onto another Linux PC. On the "server" I've set up a directory called /backup and now I'd like to know which permissions it should have for that my backups succeed. What I want to achieve is that I

Newbie problems

2007-05-28 Thread Boniforti Flavio
Hello there... I'd like to have some doubts cleared out... therefore I'm posting here... I want to back-up my PC's /home directory onto another Linux PC. On the "server" I've set up a directory called /backup and now I'd like to know which permissions it should have for that my backups succeed.