> -----Original Message----- > From: centos-bounces at centos.org > [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of John Newbigin > Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2006 9:42 PM > To: CentOS mailing list > Subject: Re: [CentOS] OT - backup question/advice > > 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. Hello John, I should have known this. I exclude /proc from my backup so I should have figure to do the same for /var/named/chroot/proc. Thanks, Eddie