Re: accident: "rm core *"

From: Juhan Leemet (juhan_at_logicognosis.com)
Date: 10/02/04 

Date: Sat, 02 Oct 2004 15:34:38 -0200

On Sat, 02 Oct 2004 09:19:19 +0000, Juha Siltala wrote:
> On 2004-10-02, Juhan Leemet <juhan@logicognosis.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, 01 Oct 2004 10:32:30 +0000, Juha Siltala wrote:
>
>>> Personally, I like Reoback: http://reoback.sourceforge.net/ . I do backups
>
>> I was going to setup reoback and immediately ran into a problem: I want to
>> put my backups on a network disk, but root does not have permission...
>> I guess you do local backups as "root"? Ever done NFS backups? (to? from?)
>
> I thought root had the permissions to do anything. :)

Well, I have root_squash (to nobody) on that NFS server. So root access
to my personal stuff from that server is same as nobody. I could "open 'er
up", but IMO that would be bad practice. If I absolutely had to, I would,
but I want to explore other options first. So I ran reoback as myself.

> Mounting: I run run_reoback.sh as a root cron job, so that's not a
> problem. Otherwise, you'd just have to give mount permission to the user
> you're running reoback as.

Too lazy (but I'll look into it later). I had an NFS share I could write,
as if it were local. So reoback thinks local, but the files go NFS.

> NFS: this I don't know, I've never had NFS shares. Reoback itself is
> designed only to backup either locally or via FTP, but I can't see why
> NFS mounts should be a problem...

Shouldn't be, if I setup sudo to allow me to mount as myself. (lazy/busy)

>> BTW, how many CDs do you end up burning? Are they mountable or
>> compressed?
>
> One CD. :) All the big stuff tends to be multimedia... not
> industrial-strength backup solution, just something to save my and my
> Lady's work.

Fair enough. Whatever works. Lucky you can fit is on 1 CD. I'm a pack rat.

> As such, the CDs don't have to be anything special, they're mountable
> and contain the regular tarballs that reoback creates.

Hmm, yas, I was hoping to find some solution that could be mounted and
read without needing a restore. There are some out there... gotta google... 

-- 
Juhan Leemet
Logicognosis, Inc.

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