Backup booting

[Karl Larsen]

Nils Kassube wrote:
> David Fox wrote:
>   
>> On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 10:33 AM, Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net> wrote:
>>     
>>> Well, you will probably need some more directories. What I'm missing
>>> are these: /mnt /proc /sys /media /srv
>>>       
>> Doubtful. Anything on /mnt implies something may be mounted on that
>> partition, such as other partitions. If you include that you might end
>> up in a loop, capturing /mnt which then captures what is underneath
>> it, then that captures its /mnt, and you end up backing up way too
>> much redundant data.
>>
>> There's no point to backing up /dev, /proc, /sys, probably /srv as
>> well - or /media (why back up the dvd that might be mounted at
>> /media/cdrom0?) because those directories are autoregenerated on the
>> fly by the system.
>>     
>
> According to Karls script, many directories were copied, but he didn't 
> mention if those missing directories are in fact present on the disk. I 
> didn't suggest to copy those directories, but they are needed for a 
> working system. As I wrote in the part you didn't quote, the directories 
> should be created but not copied.
>
>
> Nils
>
>   
    I did make all of then Nils and it may have helped. But the darn 
GTK+ problem now is wierd because I do not use it here in the main 
computer.

-- 

	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
	Linux User
	#450462   http://counter.li.org.
   PGP 4208 4D6E 595F 22B9 FF1C  ECB6 4A3C 2C54 FE23 53A7