Thank you for your responses.
Somehow I get the feeling that excluding a single file's contents is  
way easier than risking a failed restore. Since I don't mind the few  
MBs in /dev (except the hunderts of MBs in /dev/tty12) I'll submit a  
feature request regarding this issue. Who knows - it might be useful  
for other scenarios too.

Stefan


On 13.01.2009, at 00:39, John Drescher wrote:

>>> Have you tested a restore? If you are restoring to 'baremetal',  
>>> then you
>>> might actually need something in /dev before udev starts, which is  
>>> a bit
>>> tricky as it's 'under' udev...
>>
>> Not necessarily.  If you're doing a baremetal restore, you already  
>> have to
>> have to boot some minimum OS before you can run the fd anyway.   
>> What I have
>> done several times is this:
>>
>> - boot a plain old fedora rescue CD
>> - copy the fd binaries, config files, and diskinfo scripts onto it
>> - recreate the partition tables and filesystems using the diskinfo  
>> scripts
>> - mount the new partitions on /restore
>> - done a full restore with where => /restore
>> - reinstall the boot load
>> - reboot into the newly restored system
>>
>> Since the boot scripts are designed to come up with an empty /dev  
>> and populate
>> it at runtime, all you have to do is make sure the /dev/ directory  
>> exists.
>>
>
> In gentoo, I believe its possible to boot a live cd (or sysrescuecd
> http://www.sysresccd.org/Beta-x86)  install bacula on tempfs and get
> it to restore to a real harddrive without installing the OS first.
>
> I have not tested that though.
>
> John
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