From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dsjnl-0004hR-1g for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 13 Jul 2005 16:09:37 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j6DG6YQs007403; Wed, 13 Jul 2005 16:06:34 GMT Received: from vms046pub.verizon.net (vms046pub.verizon.net [206.46.252.46]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j6DFwV9i024846 for ; Wed, 13 Jul 2005 15:58:32 GMT Received: from mail.joat.com ([71.114.133.177]) by vms046.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2 HotFix 0.04 (built Dec 24 2004)) with ESMTPA id <0IJK00IHMPR7TSS0@vms046.mailsrvcs.net> for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 13 Jul 2005 10:59:32 -0500 (CDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.joat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30EB16637; Wed, 13 Jul 2005 12:00:23 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail.joat.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (cornholio [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 06455-04; Wed, 13 Jul 2005 12:00:19 -0400 (EDT) Received: from cdnebinge (jnet.state.pa.us [206.224.31.162]) by mail.joat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP; Wed, 13 Jul 2005 12:00:19 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 12:00:14 -0400 From: "Dave Nebinger" Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] Backing up /sys... In-reply-to: <011a01c587c1$54510180$0501a8c0@DELVAPBOS> To: Cc: Message-id: <002601c587c3$f5301a30$5f01010a@jnetlab.lcl> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-version: 1.0 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2527 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.6626 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Importance: Normal X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-priority: Normal DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; h=Received:Received:From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:Message-ID:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:X-Priority:X-MSMail-Priority:X-Mailer:In-Reply-To:Importance:X-MimeOLE:X-Virus-Scanned; b=mgLSbUgdUMYEMV1Y0tFVkSEH0VK5wiwSEiZkSrXyDtiFoolZUSaGTqc850Zfj9w8gamsei5gjQVGQM31LW/DaFNxkHTB5rwUEKNlfx1S7CY+AOYxo6V0ZMFx6VEfSSTNaLBve0kc+PSWCY/blIjJxMGeGP1fexL0lH9ESp0eXuA=; c=nofws; d=joat.com; q=dns; s=selector1 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new 2.3.1 (20050509) at joat.com X-Archives-Salt: 5753428c-15cb-4414-8fd5-902aaa38814a X-Archives-Hash: 9b0aec1fbfb6611c1ae7d7465e832922 /sys is a completely virtual filesystem. Why would you bother to back it up? You can't restore it so the backup does you no good at all. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list