copy as root

[John Dangler]

Wow.  8 replies, all from the same person.

The drive I'm copying to is on a win machine.
I don't have rsync installed.

sudo nautilus sounds like a plan...
I'm only copying everything from my home folder to this drive so I can
re-install Edgy, since my sound and usb stuff died with the last
updates, as well as Evolution 2.8.1 barfing every 20 minutes.

I've spent the last 6 days looking for solutions, and and, since I can't
seem to get to the bottom of it, and apparently no one here knows
anything about how to repair it, I'll just re-install from scratch and
see where that takes me.

Thanks for the input (I did think I had seen a thread here a while back
that mentioned this same functionality (running nautilus as root), but I
couldn't find it in the archive... it had to with a file
called .sudo-as-admin-success ... or something like that...

On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 20:27 +0000, Gabriel Dragffy wrote:
> John Dangler wrote:
> > I want to back up my entire home directory to another drive using
> > nautilus.  When it starts, I get a lot of messages saying I can't copy
> > this file or this directory because I don't have permission.  How can I
> > copy these files/directories with sudo privileges?
> > 
> > 
> 
> I'd say it's best to open up the terminal and do:
> $ sudo rsync -av /home /another/device/
> 
> man rsync
> for more information.
> 
> 
> If you want to start nautilus as root then you can press Alt+F2, and as 
> the run command enter:
> gksu nautilus
> 
> Use this with care.
>