[SunHELP] Do I need to backup /proc?

[Dale Ghent]

On 28 Mar 2001, Ann Waters wrote:

| Hi Listers,
| 
| I have 60+ sun servers that I have to back up across a WAN.  I want to
| do each box as quickly as possible and avoid saturating the WAN for
| extended periods of time.  With that in mind, is it safe to exclude
| the /proc filesystem from any backups I do?  Given that /proc is
| pretty much there for process debugging purposes (perhaps I'm
| oversimplifying it), I would throw caution to the wind and say that
| that is something I'll not need to recover sometime down the road.

the last thing you want to do is back up /proc, and then restore it.

It's the fastest way to see your server crash.

/dale