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Old 05-16-2008
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Originally Posted by Movomito View Post
I want to backup to another directory on the same drive, but i want that directories normal everyday permissions to be read only except for when i run the backup script.
You're a bit hard to understand (among others your use of genitive is improper).

How I understand you:
i) you have a media which is mount ro
ii) you want to backup to it
iii) you therefore want to set only one dir of that drive to be writeable

That is not possible. In order to write to that device you need to mount it rw. Why don't you simply mount it rw?
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