scheduling an unattended backup on MacOSX server

[pch]

Originally Posted by dnanian

It's as it has "always" been.

This response is a bit too cryptic for me, unfortunately, and I really need to know the answer; I need an fully unattended backup solution.

• Can I schedule an unattended SD! backup on MacOSX 10.4.10 by scheduling it as "root"?
• For security reasons I really would prefer not to login as root; I don't currently have it enabled for interactive login sessions. Since it sounds like it's an issue with the cron job privileges, would either of the following work?
  • setup the backup schedule through the GUI client using my normal login; move the crontab entries to the root crontab manually; or
  • run the SD! gui client as root using sudo (not sure whether the difference between effective and actual uid would matter)

thanks,
Pete