You don't even want to try and back up the proc fs. Have a look at the size of /proc/kcore. If there is an option to not cross filesystems then turn that on (like tar -l or find -xdev). Failing that, use mount to find everywhere that proc and sysfs is mounted and exclude them manually. John. 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 > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > > -- John Newbigin Computer Systems Officer Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies Swinburne University of Technology Melbourne, Australia http://www.ict.swin.edu.au/staff/jnewbigin