growisofs and sudo

[John]

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

Neither is that what I was trying to point out.