Hi All;
I've setup a cron backup script to backup my Fedora 10 laptop - mostly in case a new yum update breaks my system.
I'm currently excluding /proc but when the rsync script hits the /sys directory I get lots of read errors like this:
sys/module/vmmon/initstate rsync: read errors mapping "/sys/module/vmmon/initstate": No data available (61) sys/module/vmmon/refcnt rsync: read errors mapping "/sys/module/vmmon/refcnt": No data available (61) sys/module/vmmon/srcversion rsync: read errors mapping "/sys/module/vmmon/srcversion": No data available (61)
Questions:
- should I exclude /sys from my rsync backup ? - Is it safe to restore my system without restoring /proc and /sys ? - If I do need to restore can I simply do an rsync like this: rsync -va /backup-location /system-location (i.e. rsync -va /stage/backup/etc /etc)
Will rsync overwrite the files say in /etc with the backed up files even if the current /etc files are newer than the backed up files.
Here's my backup script if it helps: # cat run_rsync.sh #!/bin/bash
for I in `cat dirlist` do echo "[$I]" echo "==========" rsync -av /${I} /stage/backup done
and here's the dirlist file: # cat dirlist bin boot dev docs download etc home lib lib64 lost+found media mnt opt root sbin selinux srv sys tmp usr var
as always, thanks in advance...