On Fri, 5 May 2000, Kirk McElhearn wrote:
>I am trying to back up my Mandrake installation into a backup partition.
> When I do so, I get a message that XXX special files will not be copied.
> What are special files? Does this compromise my backup? I wanted to
>back up the entire installation in case I screw something up...
I guess these are files that are constantly in use by the system. OPen
files cannot be backed up. I use TAR to backup my system to tape but have
never seen these messages. What program do you use? Do you just copy
things?
Paul
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