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Guys,
I searched the bbs and wiki and I don't seem to be able to find an answer to this. I just got my first installation of Arch up and running and fully configured the way I want it (it took a while!). I followed the Wiki entry for using rsync to do a full system backup to another disk on my system. The problem I'm running into is it tries to backup /proc/kcore and of course this a huge virtual file. It just fills up backup drive and fails.
I don't want to exclude /proc because I want to do a full backup to the second disk and actually be able to boot into it in case I mess something up on the main disk. Anyone else see this? I was thinking of just booting the USB stick and dd'ing the main disk but I like the option of routinely using rsync to maintain current backups. Any help would be appreciated!
Jamie
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/proc is pseudo filesystem, it gets created at boot, so it's safe to exclude it.
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@karol: Maybe a stupid question, but do you know if it needs an empty (/proc) directory as mountpoint, for booting ?
It's funny though ls -lh shows kcore as 128T, that would be really huge ? Never noticed that..
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On my system kcore is smaller
$ ls -lh /proc/kcore
-r-------- 1 root root 1016M Jan 15 00:14 /proc/kcore
I think /proc gets created at boot:
$ ls -l / | grep proc
dr-xr-xr-x 82 root root 0 Jan 12 21:58 proc
$ uptime
00:22:15 up 2 days, 2:23, 1 user, load average: 0.11, 0.56, 0.43
(yes, I know, I shouldn't be grepping ls)
As https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ta … is_page.3F says, the page needs some love. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php?ti … did=291654 is the edit that removed the excludes.
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Ah yeah, I see. Thanks.
$ ls -lh /proc/kcore
-r-------- 1 root root 128T Jan 15 01:08 /proc/kcore
$ ls -l /proc/kcore
-r-------- 1 root root 140737486262272 Jan 15 01:09 /proc/kcore
It's weird, but it's really. (even as root, yeah I really shouldn't use root either...)
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kcore is not a problem
$ df -h /proc/kcore
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
proc 0 0 0 - /proc
Exclude /proc, /dev etc. and backup your system.
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 00#p686200
http://www.novell.com/support/kb/doc.php?id=7004153
Last edited by karol (2014-01-15 00:32:58)
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That edit has been undone. Please re-read https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fu … with_rsync and try the script again.
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