On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 12:44 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > 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. ---- I am not speaking from first hand experience here. I gathered that the only thing necessary to create in /dev is /dev/console and the rest are automatically created entries. Craig
