Unless you have a very odd version of Linux, the terminal output is NOT
stored there. It's a device file. In fact, backing it up would actually
be dangerous to your health (or at least your system's health) because
on restore, you would end up deleting a device and replacing it with an
ordinary file. Unless bacula was smart enough to remember the major and
minor node numbers etc. - but why would it do that?
These device "non-files" are essential for the survival of a Unix system
- in fact, bacula itself probably need it already in place to access
your tape drive or hard disk - and are automatically installed every
time you boot your operating system.
Don't touch it, and do not, ever, back it up.
And if you do have ordinary files in /dev? Move them elsewhere. I don't
even know if it is possible to put ordinary files there.
So the real question is: why does /dev/tty12 appear to take up a lot of
space? Could you type this command and post the output:
ls -lah /dev/tty12
Mine looks like this:
crw--w---- 1 root tty 4, 12 Dec 6 05:01 /dev/tty12
The c means "it's a character device, not a file" And the 4, 12 means:
major node 4, minor node 12.
Stefan Sorin Nicolin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have yet another exclusive configuration need. I'd like to back up a
> file _without_ it's contents. I noticed that under Gentoo Linux /dev/
> tty12 takes a lot of useless space. The terminal output is stored
> there - somethig that I can very well live without in case I have to
> restore a system from backup.
> The only way I can imagine it right now is to exclude the file
> completely and create a dedicated restore jobdef where /dev/tty12 is
> created per runscript directive. This doesen't feel right though.
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks much.
>
> Stefan Sorin Nicolin
> http://nicolinux.org
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