growisofs and sudo

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 10:17:14AM +0800, John wrote:

> Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> >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.

One of the possible uses of tar is to backup the whole system, but you do
not need root privileges in order to use tar simply because it can be used
to backup the whole system.

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 - mdz