jkinz at kinz.org wrote: > 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 > Thank you for the suggestion ! so now i backup /var/ with the follwing command: > rsync -a --progress --delete --delete-excluded --exclude-from=/root/exclude-pattern /var/ ~freedom/backup/var/ it seems fine as no error message is generated but is there any more efficient alternative ?