On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 12:44:21PM +0530, partha chowdhury wrote: > 2>i stop the named service before starting backup as i run the named > process in a chroooted environment and if i trey to manually backup > /var with rsync i get :/var/named/chroot/proc/kcore: <file> has vanished ! Always exclude /var/named/chroot/proc/ from your backups. backing it up isn't needed. See: https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-general-1/prockcore-what-is-it-14251/ Jeff Kinz --