On Sat, 2014-07-12 at 09:50 +0200, Heinz Diehl wrote:
> The content of those dirs is dynamically generated and of variable and
> often temporary nature. Thus, it shouldn't do any harm restoring them.
Restoring /proc (if such a thing is even possible) would pretty much
guarantee screwing up your sy
On 12.07.2014, Rick Stevens wrote:
> /proc, /sys and /dev are dynamically created at boot so backing them
> up is sort of a bad idea (well, backing them up is OK but restoring them
> would be bad).
Why would this be bad?
The content of those dirs is dynamically generated and of variable and
oft
On 07/11/2014 03:33 PM, Joe Zeff issued this missive:
On 07/11/2014 03:21 PM, Jackson Byers wrote:
What I am still very uncertain :
how to handle, ie backup,
dirs like
/dev, /proc, /sys, /srv
/media, /run
Don't. I'm not sure about /sys and /srv, but the rest are created by
the system at boot
On 07/11/2014 03:21 PM, Jackson Byers wrote:
What I am still very uncertain :
how to handle, ie backup,
dirs like
/dev, /proc, /sys, /srv
/media, /run
Don't. I'm not sure about /sys and /srv, but the rest are created by
the system at boot, and all you would do by "restoring" them would be to
What I am still very uncertain :
how to handle, ie backup,
dirs like
/dev, /proc, /sys, /srv
/media, /run
In the past (f14,f16) I have muddled through these
somehow, but always felt I wasn't doing it quite correctly.
I recall some advice e.g., just create the dir, /dev, but not its
contents.?
o
