From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Icz8J-0007M1-J0 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 03 Oct 2007 07:59:04 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with SMTP id l937knL8025082; Wed, 3 Oct 2007 07:46:49 GMT Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l937gUQH020336 for ; Wed, 3 Oct 2007 07:42:30 GMT Received: from krikkit.digimed.co.uk (krikkit.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E5E01CE6FD for ; Wed, 3 Oct 2007 08:42:29 +0100 (BST) Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 08:41:39 +0100 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Migrating a system Message-ID: <20071003084139.42d0d809@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <4703335E.7060901@googlemail.com> References: <4702ADE3.5040105@electronsweatshop.com> <4702BA87.80204@googlemail.com> <47032FCD.2020102@electronsweatshop.com> <4703335E.7060901@googlemail.com> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.0.2cvs1 (GTK+ 2.12.0; powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Sender: neil@digimed.co.uk 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 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Sig_/aBPZf=hvMdBx_cn2tAyN4z."; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: bc3b41d4-2d0d-488d-bd61-70b1ef3dcef6 X-Archives-Hash: 366da9e08e30927d77c0e6bec9203577 --Sig_/aBPZf=hvMdBx_cn2tAyN4z. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello Daniel Pielmeier, > > Is it really necessary to back up /sys and /proc? What about /dev? =20 >=20 > I don't think it is necessary but it will consume almost no disk space > so I don't worry. /proc/kcore can get rather large. You are not only using the disk space when backing up, but when restoring too. If you have 4GB of RAM, you will waste 4GB of your root partition when you restore /proc/kmem, which could be a problem if root is only a few hundred MB. The --one-filesystem option would be useful here. I prefer to back up each filesystem separately, since the main planned use for them is a hosed filesystem I would hope to need only one of them (at most). --=20 Neil Bothwick We are sorry, but the number you have dialed is imaginary. --Sig_/aBPZf=hvMdBx_cn2tAyN4z. Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHA0fium4al0N1GQMRAlbAAKC6WIG7ITesy5L3QJ5koBLR90f4jQCgo7Be t5we5EphhxDpabLtPH3VpLE= =QV9N -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/aBPZf=hvMdBx_cn2tAyN4z.-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list