Hey all: Doing my first back up on a new linux machine and ran into a problem. My question is this..... Is it necessary to back up the proc filesystem when doing a "full" backup? At first I tried a backup using dump
dump -0uf - /dev/sdb1 | gzip --fast -c >> /dev/nst0 I did that for all directories under /. I don't know why I originally chose this method. I guess because of the extra information it holds for you. ??? Anyways, when I tried to access the tape, using restore -if /dev/nst0, it wouldn't read. I even tried to unzip first and still had no luck. I said the heck with that, I should have used tar from the start. Guess what?? Trying tar cvf - / > /dev/nst0 ended much later with : 'tar: ended with previous errors' or something like that. During that time I noticed that proc/kcore was being padded with zeroes (which took forever).... On a new tape, I went through and backed up each file system under / with no errrors. I have done all but proc. The proc filesystem is created by the kernel at boot, correct? Since it seems this is where my error was coming from, do I really need to include it in the backup? Some clarification would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance, DB _______________________________________________ Seawolf-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/seawolf-list
