On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 02:10:35AM -0800, Gil Vidals wrote: > I'm aiming to use Amanda for bare metal restores as described in "Backup & > Recovery" by Curtis Preston - p. 145. However, I'm not sure which > directories to exclude. In fact, I'm not sure that I should exclude anything > at all. Should I exclude these? > > /proc > /mnt > /dev > /tmp > /sys >
With the possible exception of local usage of /mnt, all of these are temporary or dynamic or pseudo file systems or directory trees. Don't back them up. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
