Cannot rsync /proc/kcore to new disk

[Ken D'Ambrosio]

On 2019-12-16 11:37, Liam Proven wrote:

> AFAIK, everything in /proc is dynamically generated by the kernel.

Bingo.  (And right about /sys, too.)  Here's my rsync for backups:

/usr/bin/rsync -av -e /usr/bin/ssh --progress --exclude 'proc/' 
--exclude 'dev/' --exclude 'sys/' --exclude 'tmp/' 
root at source.jots.org:/ /bigdisk-01/backups/destination/

I'm excluding:
/proc -- virtual FS created on boot
/sys  -- virtual FS created on boot
/tmp  -- temporary FS about which you shouldn't care
/dev  -- dynamically generated at boot; additionally, you do *not* want 
to copy (say) images of disks, etc.

-Ken

P.S.  If you're not familiar with excludes in rsync, it thinks of all 
those directories as relative to the directory it's running from -- 
which is "/" as per "root at source.jots.org:/".  So "--exclude 'proc/'" 
translates to "/proc/".