[rdiff-backup-users] XRestore, an script for rdiff-backup script...

[Francisco M. Marzoa Alonso]

As told in the entry:

"I’ve wrote this script to restore rdiff-backups with regular users
conserving the files ownerships.

The problem is that in modern UNiX systems -like GNU/LiNUX- regular
users cannot change the owner of files because this is a security
thread, so to allow that rdiff-backup could restore file ownership it
must run as superuser -root-.

This script acts as a wrapper between regular users and rdiff-backup
itself, while it runs with root privileges so it can -and therefore do-
restore file ownership.

It requires xinetd, but may be you can do it run with other tcp wrappers
like the older inetd or so."

http://marzoa.com/2009/03/01/xrestore-an-script-for-rdiff-backup-script/

Hope it may be useful for someone.

Regards,