<quote who="david"> > I'm doing a back up exercise, and google is not helping me. > > I've done a copy of the entire root drive using <# rsync -a> onto a back > up drive (small because all data is on seperate drives). > > To what extent are /proc and /sys recreated by the system as required, and > to what extent do they need to be backed-up? I hope that question makes > sense.
They're entirely virtual filesystems and don't need to be backed up at all. In general, you should use the -x (or --one-file-system) parameter with rsync when you're backing up -- saves backing up (and even reading) useless crap like this. - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2010: Wellington, NZ http://www.penguinsvisiting.org.nz/ "There's always a new bogeyman - every two months, there's a new axe to add to the axis of evil." - Michael Moore -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
