[OpenIndiana-discuss] Root as role vs. user and rsync

[Dave Pooser]

On 5/6/12 8:04 AM, "Jeppe Toustrup" <openindiana at tenzer.dk> wrote:

>2. SSH in as dedicated unprivileged user, which then have permissions
>to run rsync with root permissions though sudo.

This is how I do it, which also has the advantage of letting me give sudo
permissions to run specific scripts that (for example) quiesce a database,
snapshot the filesystem, reactivate the database, mount the snapshot, and
then perform further operations on the snapshot while the database is
humming along. Makes backup windows much more manageable....
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