On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 01:32:00PM -0300, Patrick Boutilier wrote:
> Jacquelin Bouchard wrote:
> >On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 04:47:20PM +0200, Stef Coene wrote:
> >>On Monday 10 April 2006 16:21, Jacquelin Bouchard wrote:
> >>>Hi,
> >>>
> >>>       I'm trying to backup a Linux server with TSM 5.3.3 client and,
> >>>i don't know why, the client don't backup
> >>>the directories /dev , /sys and /proc; all the other directories in /
> >>>are backed up.  Also, i don't see those
> >>>directories in the GUI interface.  Why???
> >>They are virtual file systems.  You can see them with the mount command.
> >>The
> >>data in those directoryies only exists in memory.
> >>Same for /proc on new AIX boxes.
> >>
> >>
> >>Stef
> >
> >Thanks to all,
> >
> >    Stef, i run the mount command on my system and i see what you say for
> >these directories (/proc and /sys):
> >
> >none on /proc type proc (rw)
> >none on /sys type sysfs (rw)
> >
> >but i don`t see a similar line for /dev except for /dev/pts and /dev/shm:
> >
> >none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
> >none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
> >
> >Why??
>
> What version/distribution of Linux?
>
>
>
Hi,

 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 4 (Nahant Update 3)

Jacquelin Bouchard, UQTR