On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 02:10:35AM -0800, Gil Vidals wrote:
> I'm aiming to use Amanda for bare metal restores as described in "Backup &
> Recovery" by Curtis Preston - p. 145. However, I'm not sure which
> directories to exclude. In fact, I'm not sure that I should exclude anything
> at all. Should I exclude these?
> 
> /proc
> /mnt
> /dev
> /tmp
> /sys
> 

With the possible exception of local usage of /mnt,
all of these are temporary or dynamic or pseudo
file systems or directory trees.  Don't back them up.

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