On Fri, 2009-05-22 at 13:05 +1000, david wrote:
> To what extent are /proc and /sys recreated by the system as required,

They are entirely dynamic. /proc and /sys (and, for the last several
years, /dev) are virtual filesystems; the mount command that gets them
there in the first place is something like

# mount -t proc  none       /proc
# mount -t sysfs none       /sysfs

(contrast to)

# mount -t ext3  /dev/sda6  /home

> and to what extent do they need to be backed-up?
> 
Not at all.

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