On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 13:33 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > 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. ---- he's switching from one motherboard to another motherboard which probably causes some issues in the /dev tree - this is just a wild ass guess. Craig
