You should not sync /proc. it's not normal directory Eero
la 12. toukok. 2018 klo 18.37 Richard Owlett <rowl...@cloud85.net> kirjoitti: > In another thread it was suggested that I use: > rsync -avzh --delete > -n <fromdirectory> <todirectory> > > I tried it and got ~200 error messages of form: > > > file has vanished: "/proc/10/exe" > > > file has vanished: "/proc/10/task/10/exe" > > > file has vanished: "/proc/101/exe" > > > file has vanished: "/proc/101/task/101/exe" > > > file has vanished: "/proc/10146/exe" > > > file has vanished: "/proc/10146/task/10146/exe" > > > file has vanished: "/proc/10300/cwd" > > > file has vanished: "/proc/10300/root" > > > file has vanished: "/proc/10300/exe" > > Spot checking properties of those showed that although they had multiple > sub-directories the content was "0 bytes". > > Browsing [https://manpages.debian.org/stretch/manpages/proc.5.en.html] > implied that excluding everything under /proc would be reasonable. > > Am I correct? > TIA > > >
