[Gllug] tar.gz

[Vincent AE Scott]

Jackson, Harry(HJackson at colt-telecom.com)@Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 03:31:02PM -0000:
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Darran D. Rimron-Molloy [mailto:ddrm at digital-science.net]
> > 
> > > $tar czvf /backup.tar.gz /
> > 
> > Think about /dev & /proc and go away and write this again :)
> > 
> 
> How can you back up the device the backup is backing up to. Is this what you
> are getting at. How would you write it.
> 
> Harry

have a look at how big /proc/kcore is.
there's nothing under /proc thats worth backing up, it's not real data.
if your taking a system backup, you might want to include the /proc
directory, but nothing underneath it.

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