[Borgbackup] not running borg as root

[Thomas Waldmann]

> 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.

Yup.

Alternatively, make 2 backups:

- hostname-system-timestamp with all except home (also exclude /proc /sys)
- hostname-home-timestamp with just your home(s)

When pruning that, you MUST use --prefix accordingly (use --dry-run 
until you are sure).

>  Problem is I run
> backups as my normal user and many things in /etc are not readable by
> that user.

You can run the borg client as root and still connect to the borg server 
as non-root, just use ssh://borg@borgserver or so.

> 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.

Exactly.


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