After thinking a bit more on this, for bare-metal recovery, it seems logical
that I MUST include every directory. I shouldn't leave anything out since
the recovery process outlined below never calls for re-loading the OS.
Traditionally, the OS is reloaded and then the files are restored, but in
bare-metal recovery, the step of reloading the OS is skipped. So then, if I
don't create /tmp and /proc for example, how will these be created? Does
linux automatically create these if it detects they are missing?
--Gil
On Nov 22, 2007 9:36 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Nov 2007, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> > 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.
>
> It depends. /dev may be real.
>
> Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
>
> Geert
>
> --
> Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 --
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker.
> But
> when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like
> that.
> -- Linus
> Torvalds
>
