From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Clone live system as a simple backup?
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2012 17:12:03 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120308171203.32560ef3@hactar.digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAA2qdGWQJf_GZLMzW5Vz1sCjAUU0oWq24wYqs6TL2m+BAVxk1A@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, 8 Mar 2012 23:52:53 +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote:
> > As an added note on this, rsync's --one-file-system (-x) flag is handy
> > for avoiding grabbing unneeded things, but will typically leave you
> > without the base few device nodes needed to boot the backup, those can
> > either be grabbed from a stage3, or created with (courtesy of Linux
> > From Scratch's section "6.2.1. Creating Initial Device Nodes"):
> >
> > mknod -m 600 ${backup}/dev/console c 5 1
> > mknod -m 666 ${backup}/dev/null c 1 3
> >
>
> ... or just add another rsync invocation to backup /dev ...
That won't work because it will backup the full devfs mounted on /dev,
not the files that exist in the directory itself.
--
Neil Bothwick
Despite the cost of living, have you noticed how it remains so popular?
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-06 19:51 [gentoo-user] Clone live system as a simple backup? Mark Knecht
2012-03-07 13:55 ` gandalf
2012-03-07 19:47 ` Joshua Murphy
2012-03-08 12:26 ` YoYo Siska
2012-03-08 16:52 ` Pandu Poluan
2012-03-08 17:12 ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2012-03-08 19:14 ` Mark Knecht
2012-03-08 19:53 ` Brian Wiborg
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