On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 09:08, Timothy Murphy wrote: > The problem, as I see it, is: which directories should one exclude? > In particular, if I copied /dev then the system booted, > but there were a number of errors reported during the boot, > and a number of services did not start. It might have helped if you had reported these errors. They probably could be fixed if you've gotten that far. I thought udev was supposed to fix things itself at runtime. > If I didn't copy /dev the re-boot seemed to hang when init starts. I'd expect that. > Has anyone actually made a copy of an FC-4 system with success, > using tar, cp -a, rsync or anything similar? > If so, which directories did you exclude? This really needs to be nailed down so people know how to restore from a tar backup which is usually what you use if you back up running systems. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
