On Thursday 10 January 2008 23:18:33 Krautkramer, John wrote:
> Hi,
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> I've recently switched to CentOS 5.0 from RedHat 9.0 and found a new
> directory /proc which contains "virtual" files according to the docs.
> When I try to run my normal backup which uses cpio to create archives,
> it complains about not being able to access many files in the /proc
> directory. This is also true of some files in /sys/devices.
>
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> Searching for something that wouldn't have this problem, I tried
> mondorescue. One of the first things I noticed is, by default,
> mondorescue skips the /proc directory. Does anyone know the details of
> my observations here? Are these files automatically generated at
> runtime?
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> Thanks is advance for any insight someone can provide here!
>
>
>
> John
Yes, the /proc directory basically contains information on the running kernel
and should never be backed up.
Tony
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