On 07/11/2014 03:33 PM, Joe Zeff issued this missive:
On 07/11/2014 03:21 PM, Jackson Byers wrote:
What I am still very uncertain :
how to handle, ie backup,
dirs like
/dev, /proc, /sys, /srv
/media, /run
Don't. I'm not sure about /sys and /srv, but the rest are created by
the system at boot, and all you would do by "restoring" them would be to
fsck your system up completely.
I use this sort of thing to back up to a directory named after the
machine and the date located on a USB hard drive mounted at
/run/media/Rick/USBDrive/backups:
rsync -avXA --exclude-from=/etc/skipdirs.rsync /
/run/media/Rick/USBDrive/backups/`hostname`-`date +%d-%m-%Y-%T`
and where the contents of /etc/skipdirs.rsync is:
/proc/*
/sys/*
/dev/*
/media/*
/run/media/*
**/.cache/google-chrome/***
**/.ccache/***
/proc, /sys and /dev are dynamically created at boot so backing them
up is sort of a bad idea (well, backing them up is OK but restoring them
would be bad).
I don't back up /run/media or /media simply because I don't want to
back up removable media--especially anything I'm backing up TO (circular
references anyone?) I also don't back up various caches (and it's
shocking how much of that cruft there is).
If you want, you can back up /srv. RHEL-related systems (RHEL, CentOS,
Fedora) generally don't use it. Some distros use it for the webroot,
e.g. /srv/www or or other "sharable" or "servable" content. It's not a
dynamically created filesystem like /proc or /sys or /dev. Your choice.
For what it's worth, I have also used MondoRescue and Clonezilla with
success if you need to restore to bare metal after a total meltdown.
Just a suggestion. Your mileage may vary.
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