How to copy a Fedora-4 system? Again!
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Sun Apr 9 17:44:10 UTC 2006
On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 09:08, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> The problem, as I see it, is: which directories should one exclude?
> In particular, if I copied /dev then the system booted,
> but there were a number of errors reported during the boot,
> and a number of services did not start.
It might have helped if you had reported these errors. They
probably could be fixed if you've gotten that far. I thought
udev was supposed to fix things itself at runtime.
> If I didn't copy /dev the re-boot seemed to hang when init starts.
I'd expect that.
> Has anyone actually made a copy of an FC-4 system with success,
> using tar, cp -a, rsync or anything similar?
> If so, which directories did you exclude?
This really needs to be nailed down so people know how to
restore from a tar backup which is usually what you use
if you back up running systems.
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Les Mikesell
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