Kieran, DD asks for a root password before restoring to any non-/home, you're right. It could do more intelligent things, but it would be technically difficult, so hasn't been done yet.
I still haven't been able to reproduce your problem. I tried with a mounted external drive, not an ftp mount. But I figured it would be the same idea to DD.
Kieran, DD asks for a root password before restoring to any non-/home, you're right. It could do more intelligent things, but it would be technically difficult, so hasn't been done yet.
I still haven't been able to reproduce your problem. I tried with a mounted external drive, not an ftp mount. But I figured it would be the same idea to DD.