On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 01:32:00PM -0300, Patrick Boutilier wrote: > Jacquelin Bouchard wrote: > >On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 04:47:20PM +0200, Stef Coene wrote: > >>On Monday 10 April 2006 16:21, Jacquelin Bouchard wrote: > >>>Hi, > >>> > >>> I'm trying to backup a Linux server with TSM 5.3.3 client and, > >>>i don't know why, the client don't backup > >>>the directories /dev , /sys and /proc; all the other directories in / > >>>are backed up. Also, i don't see those > >>>directories in the GUI interface. Why??? > >>They are virtual file systems. You can see them with the mount command. > >>The > >>data in those directoryies only exists in memory. > >>Same for /proc on new AIX boxes. > >> > >> > >>Stef > > > >Thanks to all, > > > > Stef, i run the mount command on my system and i see what you say for > >these directories (/proc and /sys): > > > >none on /proc type proc (rw) > >none on /sys type sysfs (rw) > > > >but i don`t see a similar line for /dev except for /dev/pts and /dev/shm: > > > >none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620) > >none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw) > > > >Why?? > > What version/distribution of Linux? > > > Hi,
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 4 (Nahant Update 3) Jacquelin Bouchard, UQTR