Thanks so much. Sounds reasonable to add /mnt to that list too, I assume? The only thing that would be there (on my end) is shares from other machines and perhaps removable media I'm uninterested in backing up.
Judah On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 12:04 AM Joshua M. Clulow via openindiana-discuss < [email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, 18 Apr 2021 at 21:15, Judah Richardson > <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Linux and FreeBSD, there are some directories, such as /proc, that > > generally shouldn't be backed up or aren't worth backing up since a new > > installation regenerates them or generates their own anyway. > > > > What are those directories for OpenIndiana? > > I would probably exclude at least "/proc" and "/dev" and "/system". > It might be worth taking a look at the filesystem(5) manual page, or > perhaps you can look at all of the things that are mounted from file > systems other than ZFS to get some hints on areas you might want to > exclude; e.g., > > $ awk '$3 != "zfs" { printf("%-20s %s\n", $2, $3); }' /etc/mnttab | > sort > /dev dev > /dev/fd fd > /devices devfs > /etc/dfs/sharetab sharefs > /etc/mnttab mntfs > /etc/svc/volatile tmpfs > /lib/libc.so.1 lofs > /net autofs > /proc proc > /system/boot bootfs > /system/contract ctfs > /system/object objfs > /tmp tmpfs > /var/run tmpfs > > > Cheers. > > -- > Joshua M. Clulow > http://blog.sysmgr.org > > _______________________________________________ > openindiana-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
