Déjà Dup

Want to Run as root - is this a reasonable use case?

Asked by Keith Schneider

I want to run as root via beesu on Fedora 14. Things I see and worry about.

I loose the ability to connect to a server - the selection list for types of connections is gone - only see custom connection so I fail to be able to connect to my file area on my server. Maybe I'm confused over the URI spec.

Basically I'm wanting to backup /home containing a number of other users home folders etc... It looks like this is really tailored for the the individual user doing/managing their own backups. I'm more so targeting a small workgroup that is mostly coming from Windows to their home folders via Samba. In a simple admin role, I want to setup an administrative user that can run deja-dup as a privileged user that can backup and restore all of /home (well actually other possible folders too - but necessarily looking for full DR capabilities - but include something like /etc so I also capture most system config files).

The tool looks great and has such a clean simple appearance, it seems to look like a great tool for that simple secretary that I want to be able to log into this admin account and start this admin/root instance of deja-dup and press the backup button...

Thoughts?

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Keith Schneider (kas-spyratech) said : 		#1

Okay - so I've read more on this package and it does indeed say that it is intended for a a user to backup their own data - not for a sys admin to use for the backups of the greater system. Too bad as the UI is just idea for what I'm looking for. The other anomalys I've noticed are basically irrelevant based on the overall mission of the package.

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Michael Terry (mterry) said : 		#2

Hi! Well, Deja Dup does try to support this case a bit. For example, if you are restoring files into folders besides your home folder, it will prompt for root access. But it won't prompt for root access to read files during the actual backup.

So you can do what you discussed as your normal user, as long as that user has read access to everything you want.