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@@ -71,26 +71,20 @@ Also helpful:
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Important note about permissions
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-Using root likely will be required if you want to backup files of other users
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-or the operating system. If you only back up your own files, you neither need
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-nor want to use root.
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+To avoid permissions issues (in your borg repository or borg cache), **always
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+access the repository using the same user account**.
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-Avoid to create a mixup of users and permissions in your repository (or cache).
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+If you want to backup files of other users or the operating system, running
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+borg as root likely will be required (otherwise you'ld get `Permission denied`
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+errors).
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+If you only back up your own files, you neither need nor want to run borg as
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+root, just run it as your normal user.
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-This can easily happen if you run borg using different user accounts (e.g. your
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-non-privileged user and root) while accessing the same repo.
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-Of course, a non-root user will have no permission to work with the files
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-created by root (or another user) and borg operations will just fail with
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-`Permission denied`.
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-The easy way to avoid this is to always access the repo as the same user:
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-For a local repository just always invoke borg as same user.
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+For a local repository just always use the same user to invoke borg.
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For a remote repository: always use e.g. borg@remote_host. You can use this
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-from different local users, the remote user accessing the repo will always be
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-borg.
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+from different local users, the remote user running borg and accessing the
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+repo will always be `borg`.
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If you need to access a local repository from different users, you can use the
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same method by using ssh to borg@localhost.
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