From: Breathnach, Proinnsias (Dublin) (breatpro at domain MLE.CO.UK)
Date: Thu 24 Feb 2000 - 10:56:57 GMT
Well for one, /var generally contains logging files that would probably be
open, even in single user mode, backing them up is OK, restoring is going to
be a pure pain, as they'll conflict with the currently open version (esp
/var/lock files) ... you'd be better off being more selective if you think
you need to back-up /var at all
/proc is based in memory and is a filesystem based access to kernel
parameters, again a backup of this will work, but restoring it could be
likened to restoring a windows registry file (sorry guys !) in a Harry
Enfield kind of way ("You didn't wanna do that !")
Did the third fall over on /dev perchance ?
That should explain the problems you had
Proinnsias
> -----Original Message-----
> Subject: [ILUG] CPIO & TAR restore with RedHat 6.1
>
> Using cpio tape 1 to do the restore, the system stopped restoring half way
> in to the /var directory. It didn't crash and I could stop the restore
> job.
> The system re-booted OK but obviously missed everything else on the tape
> after that. I was able to read the whole tape with cpio -ivBct and wrote
> the contents to a text file.
>
> I then tried restoring from the second tape and this time I continuously
> got a segmentation error on hitting the /proc directory
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