Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Florian Philipp <f.philipp@××××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Backup /sys ?
Date: Fri, 04 May 2007 09:21:11
Message-Id: 200705041115.22200.f.philipp@addcom.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Backup /sys ? by Alan McKinnon
1 > On Friday 04 May 2007, Florian Philipp wrote:
2 > > Hi guys!
3 > >
4 > > When trying to back up my system with rdiff-backup (everything except
5 > > proc, tmp, mnt, media and distfiles) I get a lot of errors like this:
6 >
7 > First, please don't hijack threads. Your mail's header shows:
8 >
9 > In-Reply-To: <20070504075620.CB88980B01@×××××××××××××.com>
10 >
11 > which means you replied to Daniel's mail to get the correct gentoo-user
12 > mail address. Don't do this, start a new thread instead.
13 >
14 > Second, /sys is a virtual filesystem generated on the fly like /proc.
15 > Don't back it up
16 >
17 > alan
18
19 Oops, sorry!
20
21 Thank you and Remy for the answer!