[CentOS] OT - backup question/advice
Mark Weaver
mdw1982 at mdw1982.com
Wed Sep 6 01:28:18 UTC 2006
Thomas E Dukes wrote:
>
>
>> -----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
>
no problem. personally I've always wondered why the proc file system
exists at all as part of the file system. ya can't do anything with it;
it's more of a tease than anything else. When I first started with Linux
years ago I wasn't aware of it's "specialness" and looked like the
monkey with his fist in a jar trying to do things with those "files" in
there. ;P
--
Mark
"If you have found a very wise man, then you've found
a man that at one time was an idiot and lived long enough
to learn from his own stupidity."
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