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Hello Daniel Pielmeier, |
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> > Is it really necessary to back up /sys and /proc? What about /dev? |
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> I don't think it is necessary but it will consume almost no disk space |
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> so I don't worry. |
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/proc/kcore can get rather large. You are not only using the disk space |
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when backing up, but when restoring too. If you have 4GB of RAM, you will |
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waste 4GB of your root partition when you restore /proc/kmem, which could |
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be a problem if root is only a few hundred MB. |
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The --one-filesystem option would be useful here. I prefer to back up |
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each filesystem separately, since the main planned use for them is a |
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hosed filesystem I would hope to need only one of them (at most). |
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Neil Bothwick |
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