----- Original Message ----- From: "Hannes Mayer" <h.mayer@xxxxxxxx> To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, 03 July, 2004 21:44 Subject: Re: full system backup > > /sys, /proc and /dev are system directories and you don't need to backup > them, since they're recreated by the system anyway on every reboot. > Backing up those would make no sense, cause of the former reason. > Actually those are not regular files, but virtual files in the virtual file-system. > > Cheers, > Hannes. > Hannes, Thanks for the reply. I suspected /sys would be created every boot but I didn't know that /dev is created also. However, due to the rare case that sometimes you need to create a devicenode manually in /dev I think its adviseable to back it up too because this devicenode will not be recreated after a reboot but you will need it after a full restore. Cheers, Edwin
