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scheduling an unattended backup on MacOSX server
I am looking for a backup solution for MacOSX server. We want to schedule backups on the server with SuperDuper!. Unfortunately the manually tells this is only possible when the user is logged in. We don't want to leave any user logged in to execute a backup. Is there any option to circumvent this limition? Apart from this it SuperDuper! suits our needs.
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You have two choices. You can have an unprivileged user logged in with the screen locked (using a password protected screen saver), or you can install and schedule as root.
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Will the second option still work if the server reboots and nobody logs in as root user ? Thanks. |
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Yes: at least in Panther and Tiger, root's crontab runs when no one is logged in, and root has access to the screen, so SD! will run.
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Schedule SD! as root?
Are we talking about:
1. Logging in as the root user and creating a schedule in the SD! UI 2. Creating a launchd script to run as root or something else...? I'm running Mac OS X Server 10.4.8 |
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Logging in as the root user and creating a schedule.
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