Running a script with elevated permissions as a CRON job

[John]

su -m geoffrey ... possibly?

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Plexdata backup method

Last night I made a plexdata backup method and I thought I’d post it. And I know this post may seem simplistic on the surface but this post isn’t really about how I do plexdata backups, it’s more about problem solving. My TrueNAS has datasets for “media” and “data”. These datasets are mounted inside my plex jail on my server via NFS. For the case of this post my paths are: * Data dataset (NFS mount): `/mnt/Media/Data/plexdata` * 'plexdata' location: `/usr/local/plexdata` The nat…