Re: [rdiff-backup-users] What dirs can be excluded on a full linux image?

[Marcel (Felix) Giannelia]

I wouldn't recommend excluding /dev, depending on your distribution of 
Linux. Some require some basic device entries in /dev (the hard drives) 
in order to reach the boot stage where udev starts and populates the 
rest of the devices.

~Felix.

On 24/06/09 09:23, Billy Crook wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 00:32, bart<address@hidden> wrote:
>   
> > What directories can be excluded when doing a full linux backup image which 
> > could be restored and run on a new blank disk?
> >     
>
> This is a flawed question, because rdiff-backup can not restore to a
> new blank disk.  It must be parittioned and formatted first.  And
> grubbed afterwards.
>
> You can exclude everything.  I exclude /dev, /sys, /proc, *.gvfs, and
> /tmp.  If you use the option for staying on one filesystem, and back
> up /, you'd not need to exclude proc, sys, or dev.
>
>
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