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Old 11-13-2007, 09:47 PM
pch pch is offline
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Question

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Originally Posted by dnanian View Post
It's as it has "always" been.
This response is a bit too cryptic for me, unfortunately, and I really need to know the answer; I need an fully unattended backup solution.
  • Can I schedule an unattended SD! backup on MacOSX 10.4.10 by scheduling it as "root"?
  • For security reasons I really would prefer not to login as root; I don't currently have it enabled for interactive login sessions. Since it sounds like it's an issue with the cron job privileges, would either of the following work?
    • setup the backup schedule through the GUI client using my normal login; move the crontab entries to the root crontab manually; or
    • run the SD! gui client as root using sudo (not sure whether the difference between effective and actual uid would matter)

thanks,
Pete
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