Backing up files owned by root #3587
Description
I use timeshift to create snapshots backups of my Linux system. Timeshift makes these snapshots locally by default, and then I want to use borg to add those files into my backup pipeline.
The problem is that since timeshift backups the system files, some of these files are owned by root:root and I just noticed that borg fails to backup some of those (check the E below, with a permission denied error above it):
A /timeshift/snapshots/2018-01-30_18-00-01/localhost/bin/znew
s /timeshift/snapshots/2018-01-30_18-00-01/localhost/bin/rzsh
s /timeshift/snapshots/2018-01-30_18-00-01/localhost/bin/zsh
A /timeshift/snapshots/2018-01-30_18-00-01/localhost/bin/zsh518-01-30_18-00-01/localhost/bin/zsh5
d /timeshift/snapshots/2018-01-30_18-00-01/localhost/bin
/timeshift/snapshots/2018-01-30_18-00-01/localhost/boot/System.map-4.13.0-32-generic: open: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/timeshift/snapshots/2018-01-30_18-00-01/localhost/boot/System.map-4.13.0-32-generic'
E /timeshift/snapshots/2018-01-30_18-00-01/localhost/boot/System.map-4.13.0-32-generic
How would I go about solving this? I tried running borg as root using sudo but that created more problems in the end, and I don't think it's a good practice to do. Any hints appreciated.
Thanks in advance!