On 14 March 2010 13:43, Mathew Newton <bitfolklist@???> wrote:
> On Sun, March 14, 2010 10:37 am, Duane at e164 dot org wrote:
>
>> Doing semi-complete/complete backups via rsync/rsnapshot is difficult
>> using a non-SU account.
>
> Although if that's all you need root SSH access for you can always use the
> 'PermitRootLogin forced-commands-only' SSHD option.
I'd have thought perhaps a better way of doing backups would be to
make the backup run locally then pull/push it to the destination
server. You can't easily do MySQL dump backups over SSH for example!
James
