[Borgbackup] not running borg as root

[Neal Becker]

After a disk disaster in which I had backed up my home directory, but
not /etc, I decided I should add /etc to my backup.  Problem is I run
backups as my normal user and many things in /etc are not readable by
that user.
I suppose to read the files on the client side borg would need to run
as root, but the server side does not need root.

What do you suggest?

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