Re: Backup booting

David Fox wrote:
On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 10:33 AM, Nils Kassube <kassube@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Well, you will probably need some more directories. What I'm missing
are these: /mnt /proc /sys /media /srv

Doubtful. Anything on /mnt implies something may be mounted on that
partition, such as other partitions. If you include that you might end
up in a loop, capturing /mnt which then captures what is underneath
it, then that captures its /mnt, and you end up backing up way too
much redundant data.

There's no point to backing up /dev, /proc, /sys, probably /srv as
well - or /media (why back up the dvd that might be mounted at
/media/cdrom0?) because those directories are autoregenerated on the
fly by the system.

According to Karls script, many directories were copied, but he didn't
mention if those missing directories are in fact present on the disk. I
didn't suggest to copy those directories, but they are needed for a
working system. As I wrote in the part you didn't quote, the directories
should be created but not copied.


Nils

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