Re: Backup question

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On 3/16/14, 12:33 PM, Matthew Miller wrote:
On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 12:29:16PM -0600, CS DBA wrote:
I have an rsync script to backup my entire system each time before I
run updates, as versions come & go I try and keep up with which top
level directories to backup knowing that some like /proc are
virtual...
Here's my question:  If I simply backup all directories (including
ones like /proc & /media, etc) will the following work, or do I need
to care about specifically excluding the virtual directories?
It might not _hurt_ to back up /proc, /sys, and the like, but it's a waste
of time and effort since these are all entirely dynamically generated and
you can't possibly restore them.

You can use rsync -x to keep rsync from crossing filesystems, and then just
do it separately for each real filesystem you want.

Alternately, you might want to try the new "Fedora Atomic" --
http://rpm-ostree.cloud.fedoraproject.org/. As the name implies, this lets
you do atomic updates and switch back if thereis aproblem.

Thanks,

where would I find a complete list of the completely dynamic top level directories?


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