I wouldn't recommend excluding /dev, depending on your distribution of
Linux. Some require some basic device entries in /dev (the hard drives)
in order to reach the boot stage where udev starts and populates the
rest of the devices.
~Felix.
On 24/06/09 09:23, Billy Crook wrote:
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 00:32, bart<[email protected]> wrote:
What directories can be excluded when doing a full linux backup image which
could be restored and run on a new blank disk?
This is a flawed question, because rdiff-backup can not restore to a
new blank disk. It must be parittioned and formatted first. And
grubbed afterwards.
You can exclude everything. I exclude /dev, /sys, /proc, *.gvfs, and
/tmp. If you use the option for staying on one filesystem, and back
up /, you'd not need to exclude proc, sys, or dev.
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