On Thu, 2005-02-03 at 11:04 -0500, Nick Smith wrote: > i read up on the man page of rsync and got that this command will backup > my server to another external drive i have: > > mail root # rsync -avz / /mnt/backup/ > > but when i run that command i get a bunch of 'no such file errors' and > then it starts coping everything. is this bad? > > building file list ... readlink "//proc/2/task/2/exe" failed: No such > file or directory > readlink "//proc/2/exe" failed: No such file or directory > readlink "//proc/3/task/3/exe" failed: No such file or directory > readlink "//proc/3/exe" failed: No such file or directory > readlink "//proc/4/task/4/exe" failed: No such file or directory > readlink "//proc/4/exe" failed: No such file or directory > readlink "//proc/5/task/5/exe" failed: No such file or directory > readlink "//proc/5/exe" failed: No such file or directory > readlink "//proc/6/task/6/exe" failed: No such file or directory > readlink "//proc/6/exe" failed: No such file or directory > readlink "//proc/7/task/7/exe" failed: No such file or directory > readlink "//proc/7/exe" failed: No such file or directory > readlink "//proc/8/task/8/exe" failed: No such file or directory > readlink "//proc/8/exe" failed: No such file or directory > readlink "//proc/22/task/22/exe" failed: No such file or directory > readlink "//proc/22/exe" failed: No such file or directory > readlink "//proc/95/task/95/exe" failed: No such file or directory > readlink "//proc/95/exe" failed: No such file or directory > readlink "//proc/96/task/96/exe" failed: No such file or directory > readlink "//proc/96/exe" failed: No such file or directory > readlink "//proc/109/task/109/exe" failed: No such file or directory > readlink "//proc/109/exe" failed: No such file or directory > readlink "//proc/200/task/200/exe" failed: No such file or directory > readlink "//proc/200/exe" failed: No such file or directory > readlink "//proc/201/task/201/exe" failed: No such file or directory > readlink "//proc/201/exe" failed: No such file or directory > readlink "//proc/203/task/203/exe" failed: No such file or directory > readlink "//proc/203/exe" failed: No such file or directory > readlink "//proc/202/task/202/exe" failed: No such file or directory > readlink "//proc/202/exe" failed: No such file or directory > readlink "//proc/204/task/204/exe" failed: No such file or directory > readlink "//proc/204/exe" failed: No such file or directory > readlink "//proc/796/task/796/exe" failed: No such file or directory > readlink "//proc/796/exe" failed: No such file or directory > readlink "//proc/852/task/852/exe" failed: No such file or directory > readlink "//proc/852/exe" failed: No such file or directory > readlink "//proc/853/task/853/exe" failed: No such file or directory > readlink "//proc/853/exe" failed: No such file or directory > readlink "//proc/855/task/855/exe" failed: No such file or directory > readlink "//proc/855/exe" failed: No such file or directory > readlink "//proc/856/task/856/exe" failed: No such file or directory > readlink "//proc/856/exe" failed: No such file or directory > readlink "//proc/893/task/893/exe" failed: No such file or directory > readlink "//proc/893/exe" failed: No such file or directory > readlink "//proc/894/task/894/exe" failed: No such file or directory > readlink "//proc/894/exe" failed: No such file or directory > readlink "//proc/895/task/895/exe" failed: No such file or directory > readlink "//proc/895/exe" failed: No such file or directory > readlink "//proc/17853/task/17853/exe" failed: No such file or directory > readlink "//proc/17853/exe" failed: No such file or directory > readlink "//proc/17854/task/17854/exe" failed: No such file or directory > readlink "//proc/17854/exe" failed: No such file or directory > done > > the root drive is 80gig, and im backing up to an external 160gig drive, > in the event that the 80gig crashes will this be good enough to just > copy the contents back to another drive and have it boot work just like > before the crash? or am i going about this the wrong way? there is no X > on this machine so it will have to be console based. also ive never made > a cron job before, im using vixie-cron, how to i make this command run > every week on sunday at 3am? > > thanks for the info > > Nick Smith > ======================================================================== > Gentoo Linux: Portage 2.0.51-r14. kernel-2.6.9-gentoo-r13. 2005 i686 > Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4. gcc(GCC): 3.3.5. UPTIME 19 days, 19:20 > ======================================================================== > > sorry for replying to my own email, but i wanted to add, that it would be nice if it would check to see if the file already existed from a previous backup and if it had the same date/size etc it would skip it and move on to the next file, because alot of these files wont be changing (this is an email server, and archived mail wont change) does my current setup allow for that or do i have to do something different? because i think that would speed up backups considerably, no?
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