growisofs and sudo

[John]

Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 10:49:31AM +0800, John wrote:
> 
>>Matt Zimmerman wrote:
>>
>>>Note also that there is no need to use sudo to run growisofs in Ubuntu; it
>>>works just fine as a normal user.
>>
>>To backup the whole system? I'd expect to have to use a wrapper such as 
>>I read about in Debian to do that.
> 
> 
> Why no, not to backup the whole system.  To run growisofs, as I said.
> 

Is not one of the possible uses of growisofs to backup the whole system?


What else would you recommend?


Seems to me if you want to use it to backup the whole system then you do 
need the wrapper script or some other workaround.