Ted, The simple answer to issues of "backing up" the /proc directory is: Don't! All of the contents of /proc are synthesized by the kernel to reflect the current status of the system. Nothing there is really a file, none of it is meaningfully backed up and none of it could even be restored. Just avoid backing up /proc and /dev. It sounds like you need to take in some Linux tutorials. Randall Schulz On Friday 04 February 2005 20:48, Ted Hilts wrote:
I have been using tar to backup (for restore of) the directories under "/".
I was able to use "tar -cvzpf /tar_ball_dir/file_name.tar.gz /sub_directories ...where sub_directories were bin, etc, home, lib media, opt, root, sbin, srv, tmp, usr, and var.
But tar ran into problems with sys, dev, boot and proc.
I was able to use "cp -v -p -R /sub_directories /non_compressed_dir/ ...where sub_directories were sys, dev, and boot.
But cp ran into problems with proc.
I remember some other archiving tool but cannot remember the name -- apparently it will back up the proc directory. Does anyone know the name of this archiving tool. I should probably be using it on all 4 files because it can also do compression.
Thanks -- Ted