OT: redhat

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You'll never BELIEVE what Enrique Arredondo said here...:
> I have a small backup tape drive of 20 gigs per tape and I'm looking for 
> things to exclude on the daily backup so it fit's on one tape, If I 
> exclude the /usr/scr folder would the machine works ok if I needed to do a
> rescue restore using edge ? Or is that scr folder needed ?

You typo'd twice if I'm correct in assuming you mean /usr/src.  The only
things that are generally there are the kernel source (you don't really
need it if you don't build your own), and any [S]RPMS that you may have
installed (installed for SRPMS, built for RPMS--regular RPM's are installed
out into the real locations of the files, of course).

So yeah, you could save that space.

Make sure you exclude /proc as well.  If you started in on kcore,..well,
just look at this one:

[/proc] [3:31pm]: ls -l kcore
-r--------    1 root     root     939528192 2004-11-04 15:31 kcore

You can save a weeeee bit of space by omitting /proc entirely if you're not
already.  :)  Saving /proc is useless anyway, as it's not a "real"
filesystem in the conventional sense.  Some parts -are- writeable, but they
strictly affect kernel tuning performance.  99% of it is RO though, and
utterly useless to archive.  It's just system state information.

mark->
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