Hello:<br><br>I'm working on a backup and restore feature for our schoolservers, and I got stuck on home directories of laptops<br><br>The backup works like this.. based on the backup script provided by dsd, and also based on our specific features.. I placed all important data in a directory "/library/backup" (wich can later be tar, ziped, and in our case rsync-ed), and its being done by a cron job<br>
<br>On a centralized backup server.. we have a script that PULLS the /library/backup of each server, so main configs are being saved without much hassle.. But when it comes to user directories, it lack permissions, because the /library/users/SN directory has no read permissions for others<br>
<br>how would you recomend that we do this?<br><br>My first thought was to simply just add recursive read permissions to the user folder.. but that doesn't take security in mind.. perhaps there's another way<br><br>
for now our pull works like this:<br><br>root@backupserver ~ $ rsync user@schoolserver:/library/backup/ /backup/schoolserver/backup/<br>root@backupserver ~ $ rsync user@schoolserver:/library/users/ /backup/schoolserver/users/<br clear="all">
<br>root@backupserver ~ $ rsync user2@schoolserver2:/library/backup/ /backup/schoolserver/backup/<br>
root@backupserver ~ $ rsync user2@schoolserver2:/library/users/ /backup/schoolserver/users/<br clear="all"><br>Doing a push as a cron job from the server was a second idea, but the backup server does "other" things so security in the backup server is very important<br>
<br>Any ideas?<br><br>cheers..<br><br>-- <br>Rodolfo<br><br>