OT: redhat

[Enrique Arredondo]

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From: "Fairlight" <fairlite at fairlite.com>
To: <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2004 12:34 PM
Subject: Re: OT: redhat


> 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
>

Oh my, mine is  :


-r--------    1 root     root     267128832 Nov  4 12:38 kcore

 I've been backing up this file since the invention of the wheel. what a 
waste of electrons!

> 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.

Thanks so much for these tips!!!!!