On Thursday 10 January 2008 23:18:33 Krautkramer, John wrote:
Hi,
I've recently switched to CentOS 5.0 from RedHat 9.0 and found a new directory /proc which contains "virtual" files according to the docs. When I try to run my normal backup which uses cpio to create archives, it complains about not being able to access many files in the /proc directory. This is also true of some files in /sys/devices.
Searching for something that wouldn't have this problem, I tried mondorescue. One of the first things I noticed is, by default, mondorescue skips the /proc directory. Does anyone know the details of my observations here? Are these files automatically generated at runtime?
Thanks is advance for any insight someone can provide here!
John
Yes, the /proc directory basically contains information on the running kernel and should never be backed up.
Tony