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How do I open Deja Dup as root?
Running Ubuntu 12.04 and using the built in Backup utility (Deja-dup) to back up /home and /etc every night.
Some files in /etc fail with read permission error because, well, obviously Backup runs under my user account and I don't have permission to read them.
I used to do this on 11.10 and it worked pretty well; saved my bacon a couple of times.
What's the best way to reconfig so /etc backups run successfully? Obviously I don't want to grant my user account read access to a bunch of files that are off-limits for a reason. Is there a good way to get Backup to sudo instead of running as me? Is there an easy way to set up a different job under root to back up /etc and invoke it with at /cron?
