Backup booting

[Nils Kassube]

David Fox wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 10:33 AM, Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net> wrote:
> > Well, you will probably need some more directories. What I'm missing
> > are these: /mnt /proc /sys /media /srv
>
> Doubtful. Anything on /mnt implies something may be mounted on that
> partition, such as other partitions. If you include that you might end
> up in a loop, capturing /mnt which then captures what is underneath
> it, then that captures its /mnt, and you end up backing up way too
> much redundant data.
>
> There's no point to backing up /dev, /proc, /sys, probably /srv as
> well - or /media (why back up the dvd that might be mounted at
> /media/cdrom0?) because those directories are autoregenerated on the
> fly by the system.

According to Karls script, many directories were copied, but he didn't 
mention if those missing directories are in fact present on the disk. I 
didn't suggest to copy those directories, but they are needed for a 
working system. As I wrote in the part you didn't quote, the directories 
should be created but not copied.


Nils