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Disappointed by the removal of run as root
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Contributed by: fazzari Monday, April 25 2005 @ 12:05 PM PDT
Product Platform: MacOSX
Used Product For: Over One Year
I've been using FoldersSynchronizer since version 2, and I love it, but if I have to logout and then login as root everytime I do my nightly back up of my boot volume (which is my only volume), then I'm sad to say that I'm going to have to look for a new backup program once I upgrade to Tiger. Nor will we be able to buy it for our students anymore. We have enough trouble teaching them the relatively simple steps of hooking up the backup drive and running the program. If they have to login to root everytime (which means they also have to learn how to enable it the first time), they just won't back up at all.
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Disappointed by the removal of run as root - fazzari
Why? Because if their hard drive dies, they want to be able to restore the whole system, not just their data files. It can take forever to reinstall the operating system and all of their applications from disc - and in some cases they've lost the discs, or the discs are at their parent's home while they're at school, or the reverse. Also, if an system update goes bad, it's *much* easier to just restore the system from backup then to try and reinstall the old system, and then possibly have to reinstall some applications (not all of them store their preferences in the user's directory).I consider data files to be the minimum that a backup should cover. The beauty of how FS was working before is that I could backup the entire drive nightly without taking much more time then just backing up the data files, but giving me much better options if the drive failed. I understand that Apple changed things in Tiger, but there are other ways to accomplish the same goal, and I'd hate to see FS simply settle for the kludge of having to login as root (which is insecure in its own way).
Thursday, April 28 2005 @ 08:04 AM PDT
Disappointed by the removal of run as root - RoyP
**PLEASE** bring back the option of running as root! The rigmarole of logging out and in as root, then out again every time the user needs to back up system files destroys the convenience of this software. It's ridiculous!Roy P
Wednesday, April 27 2005 @ 03:44 AM PDT
Disappointed by the removal of run as root - JKT
Why do your students need to back up their entire boot volume? What's wrong with simply backing up their home folders and the contents therein (which doesn't need to be done in root)?Reply to This
Tuesday, April 26 2005 @ 08:03 AM PDT