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1 About srvbackup 2 =============== 3 4 This is a small script meant to backup various system configurations 5 and data—some of which may require extensive privledges to access— 6 to remote systems without requiring them to have many privledges. 7 8 It does this by having a privledged user create a tarball of all 9 the files in /etc/backup/list to /var/backup/backup.tar where all 10 users are given read access. At that point an unprivledged user can 11 be used to mirror it to another server. 12 13 The utility also provides a built-in command for fetching these 14 backups which utilizes a checksum to only fetch the data if it's 15 been changed. 16 17 Encrypting the Tarball 18 ====================== 19 20 These files can contain sensative information and require root to 21 access for a reason, so in the future the ability to encrypt the 22 tarball may be added.