[SLUG] Object's DAR

[John Allsopp]

Morning all

So I've finally run dar on my machine, as root, to take a full backup, 
and I've got 698 inodes that failed to save.

Is that OK?

Do I need the sort of files that are being rejected in order to rebuild 
my system?

Should I be excluding some of these?

If I'm root, how come I'm getting permission problems?

Sample:

> Error while saving /sys/bus/usb/drivers/usblp/bind: Cannot open file : Permission denied
> Error while saving /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.5/resource3: Error while reading from file: Input/output error
> Error while saving /sys/devices/platform/i8042/serio1/drvctl: Cannot open file : Permission denied
> Error while saving /home/John/.beagle/ToIndex/firefox-beagle-978df5bab77616a8dd8795978ad9dbde.html: Error while reading from file: Input/output error
> Error while saving /home/John/.Trash/Screenshot-Olympia, Scarborough - Mozilla Firefox.png: Error while reading from file: Input/output error

I just read the blog of a friend of a friend and he's quite 
independently, converted his whole extended family to Linux and says 
"it's just like any operating system, really", and if you get a problem 
you just go online and find the fix. Yeah sure, Linux is a breeze, no 
problem.

Mind you, I had problems getting out of the petrol station kiosk the 
other day.

Cheers
J