On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 11:57:10AM -0300, Patrick Boutilier wrote:
> Jacquelin Bouchard wrote:
> >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)
>
> Chances are you are running udev so nothing in /dev needs to be backed
> up. Confirm by running:
>
>
> ps ax|grep udev
>
>
> >
> >Jacquelin Bouchard, UQTR

Hi,

    When running   ps ax | grep udev, the process    udevd  is displayed.

Jacquelin Bouchard, UQTR