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From: ptdhsnj
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2004 04:57

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|> I normally exclude /proc from the tar since its contents are virtual.
|> /dev is ok to tar, GNU tar knows what to do with device files.
|
|but above /dev, i just did a fast test, tar -cpf /tmp/dev.tgz /dev/,
|and tar did bitch about socket /dev/log ... not sure if that's a
|problem or not.  but i've never notied any negative results from
|using the technique in practice.

Yes, that's the other little detail, tar doesn't grab Unix sockets but
that's ok since those will be created by the app that needs them on the
other side.
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