On Thu, 22 Nov 2007, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> 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.

It depends. /dev may be real.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                                                Geert

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