Re: How is the cache directory supposed to be setup?

[Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com>]

On 07/15/13 19:25, Chris Brooks wrote:
> Ok, so is the normal usage to choose one user account per system to be able to
> use tarsnap with a given tarsnap account? I'm thinking I don't want to use
> "root" for this (doesn't seem safe).

Most people run tarsnap as root, because they want to back up data which only
root has access to.

Colin Percival

> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 7:19 PM, Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com
> <mailto:cperciva@tarsnap.com>> wrote:
> 
>     On 07/15/13 07:58, Chris Brooks wrote:
>     > I've created a cache directory in the default /usr/local/tarsnap-cache
>     location,
>     > but I'm getting the "can't sanitize permissions" error message.
>     >
>     > Looking at the tarsnap source, it looks like tarsnap is trying to set the
>     > permissions such that only the owner can use this directory. (Right?)
>     Since the
>     > user I'm logged in as isn't the owner of this directory, that isn't
>     working for me.
>     >
>     > What is the expectation for how the cache directory will be setup? Should I
>     > create a cache directory in my home directory and use that instead? But what
>     > happens if I want to use tarsnap under a different username later? (For
>     instance
>     > from a cron job.) Does each user need it's own cache directory?
> 
>     You need one cache directory per tarsnap key file.  Usually this means one cache
>     directory per system, since most people only have one tarsnap key file which is
>     used for all the backups from a particular box.
> 
>     --
>     Colin Percival
>     Security Officer Emeritus, FreeBSD | The power to serve
>     Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com <http://www.tarsnap.com> | Online backups
>     for the truly paranoid
> 
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Colin Percival
Security Officer Emeritus, FreeBSD | The power to serve
Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid