[CentOS] OT - backup question/advice

[Thomas E Dukes]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: centos-bounces at centos.org 
> [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Mark Weaver
> Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2006 9:11 PM
> To: CentOS mailing list
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] OT - backup question/advice
> 
> Thomas E Dukes wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I have been using mondorescue to backup to dvd for several 
> months now 
> > without any problems.
> > 
> > Since upgrading to Centos 4.4, I now receive a few errors.  
> The errors 
> > are for files in /var/named/chroot/proc.  I guess these 
> files change 
> > so when I do a differntial backup they aren't there and result in 
> > errors.  (Never got any errors before and I think these files were 
> > there in 4.3) If I exclude the files from the backup, no errors.
> > 
> > My question is what, if any problems would I run into not backing 
> > these files up and having to do a complete system restore?
> > 
> > TIA,
> > 
> > Eddie
> 
> You shouldn't run into any problems really since files within "proc" 
> aren't really there to begin with; they're resident in memory 
> only and disappear when the machine shuts down or reboots.
> 
> --
> Mark

Thanks, Mark!

Kinda what I figured but wanted a second opinion.  The errors I received
were 'files not found'.  So this answers my question.

Again, thanks!

Eddie