From: Pandu Poluan <pandu@poluan.info>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Clone live system as a simple backup?
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2012 23:52:53 +0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAA2qdGWQJf_GZLMzW5Vz1sCjAUU0oWq24wYqs6TL2m+BAVxk1A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOTuDKqF=6knSn5fPLb7hEyiLM7AaG5PoSuYLLviFwBvxACbyg@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mar 8, 2012 2:50 AM, "Joshua Murphy" <poisonbl@gmail.com> wrote:
>
---- >8 snip
>
> 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 ...
Rgds,
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-08 16:55 UTC|newest]
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 [this message]
2012-03-08 17:12 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-03-08 19:14 ` Mark Knecht
2012-03-08 19:53 ` Brian Wiborg
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