How to copy a Fedora-4 system? Again!

[Les Mikesell]

On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 12:50, Craig White wrote:
> > 
> > > 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.
> ----
> 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.

OK, but why should it hurt anything to have the destination
file system have a copy of the running source system?  Shouldn't
anything necessary be reconstructed and anything else not
matter?  If you can't restore a working system from a tar
backup a lot of people have a big problem.

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  Les Mikesell
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