Re: [gentoo-user] Backing up /sys...

2005-07-13 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Wednesday 13 July 2005 17:41, Vincent A. Primavera wrote: backing up sys? that is like backing up /proc... there is nopthing interessting, nothing that will or should survive a reboot, so why do you want to make a backup? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] Backing up /sys...

2005-07-13 Thread Dave Nebinger
/sys is a completely virtual filesystem. Why would you bother to back it up? You can't restore it so the backup does you no good at all. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Backing up /sys...

2005-07-13 Thread Vincent A. Primavera
Hello, Is it possible to copy/backup the /sys directory while the system is "live" with all filesystems mounted? I have tried a few methods ie: cp, cpio, and rsync, all as root. I am getting various "Permission denied" and "Invalid argument" errors. Does anybody have any clear answers ju