Re: udev issues backing up /dev
On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 08:56:32AM -0800, Bob McGowan wrote:
> rir wrote:
> >My question is what should I be backing up regarding udev?
> >You imply that, on a running system, /dev/.static/dev should be backed
> >up as /dev.
> I can't add anything to the discussion re. /dev, but am curious about
> your reference to "a working 5-1/4 drive or a 60meg 1/4 inch tape drive,".
>
> Since most hard disks are now less than 5-1/4 inches, are you referring
> to floppy disks? And that tape size is ancient, I think.
You are right. I have had rare occasion to look for stuff that is on
10 and 15 year old backups from my home systems.
> If you have access to either a CD or DVD burner, you might want to look
> into cdbackup/cdrestore (package name is cdbackup, IIRC). From the man
I do use CD- and DVD-RWs for backups these days. So far, I have most
of my partitions at under 3.5 gigs and so don't have to chunk things to
fit on DVDs. Well, I do have /pub and /priv filesystems that are large,
but these are pretty static and mostly replaceable. I suspect I'll move
to blue-ray discs within a few years before I feel a need for a chunker
like cdbackup, but I'm am glad to have the reference.
My comment about 60-meg QIC tapes was forward looking; I imagine that in
15 years I'll have the same problems with CDs.
Be well,
rir
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