How to copy a Fedora-4 system? Again!

Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com
Sun Apr 9 17:50:34 UTC 2006


On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 12:44 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
> 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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I am not speaking from first hand experience here.

I gathered that the only thing necessary to create in /dev
is /dev/console and the rest are automatically created entries.

Craig




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