01-21-2013
The /dev directory holds the device nodes for the hardware. It is the connection between the O/S and the actual hardware (eg, /dev/sda being a disk drive).
When you restore a backup to different hardware, these devices will be wrong for that hardware and will need to be rebuilt/reset to suit. I'm not a RedHat expert so I don't know exactly how that would be achieved. Perhaps RedHat experts on this forum can tell us how to restore to different hardware.
Anyway, the point is you need to backup all hard disk directories and ignore the directories which are really pseudo memory (eg, /proc). You need to distinguish between the two.
Work on the principle that it is better to have a backup containing stuff that is unnecessary and/or needs modification to suit new hardware rather than not have a copy of it at all.
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fssconfig
FSSCONFIG(8) BSD System Manager's Manual FSSCONFIG(8)
NAME
fssconfig -- configure file system snapshot devices
SYNOPSIS
fssconfig [-cxv] device path backup [cluster [size]]
fssconfig -u [-v] device
fssconfig -l [-v] [device]
DESCRIPTION
The fssconfig command configures file system snapshot pseudo disk devices. It will associate the file system snapshot disk device with a
snapshot of path allowing the latter to be accessed as though it were a disk.
If backup resides on the snapshotted file system a persistent snapshot will be created. This snapshot is active until backup is unlinked.
This snapshot mode is only supported for ffs files systems.
Otherwise data written through the path will be saved in backup. If backup is a regular file, it will be created with length size. Default
size is the size of path. Data is saved to backup in units of cluster bytes.
Options indicate an action to be performed:
-c Configures the device. If successful, references to device will access the contents of path at the time the snapshot was taken. If
backup is a directory, a temporary file will be created in this directory. This file will be unlinked on exit.
-l List the snapshot devices and indicate which ones are in use. If a specific device is given, then only that will be described.
-u Unconfigures the device.
-v Be more verbose listing the snapshot devices.
-x Unlink backup after the device is configured.
If no action option is given, -c is assumed.
FILES
/dev/rfss?
/dev/fss?
EXAMPLES
fssconfig fss0 /usr /tmp/back
Configures the snapshot device fss0 for a snapshot of the /usr file system. Data written through /usr will be backed up in /tmp/back.
fssconfig fss1 / /dev/rsd0e 8192
Configures the snapshot device fss1 for a snapshot of the / file system. Data written through / will be backed up in /dev/rsd0e. The backup
will take place in units of 8192 bytes.
fssconfig -u fss0
Unconfigures the fss0 device.
SEE ALSO
opendisk(3), fss(4), mount(8), umount(8)
HISTORY
The fssconfig command appeared in NetBSD 2.0.
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June 11, 2012 BSD