On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 12:50, Craig White wrote: > > > > > 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. OK, but why should it hurt anything to have the destination file system have a copy of the running source system? Shouldn't anything necessary be reconstructed and anything else not matter? If you can't restore a working system from a tar backup a lot of people have a big problem. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
