You need to exclude /proc from your backups.  It's a virtual file
system maintained by the kernel, and does not need to be backed up.


Here's the excludes we use for Linux hosts:

$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
  '*' => [
    '/dev',
    '/proc',
    '/tmp_mnt',
    '/var/tmp',
    '/tmp',
    '/net',
    '/var/lib/nfs',
    '/sys'
  ]
};




On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 9:19 AM, gshergill <[email protected]
> wrote:

> Hi Oliver,
>
>  Just a random question, but do you back up linux machines?
>
> It keeps failing for me at the point where it tries the file;
>
> /proc/kcore
>
> At this point it see's it's in use and aborts the backup... any way around
> that which you know?
>
> Thanks again.
>
> Kind Regards,
>
> gshergill
>
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