making fc20 backup

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Sat Jul 12 15:33:03 UTC 2014


On Sat, 2014-07-12 at 09:50 +0200, Heinz Diehl wrote:
> The content of those dirs is dynamically generated and of variable and
> often temporary nature. Thus, it shouldn't do any harm restoring them.

Restoring /proc (if such a thing is even possible) would pretty much
guarantee screwing up your system. Recall that each running process has
a subdirectory in /proc under its PID, which is going to be different
when the system runs again and may indeed overwrite data from a
completely different process. Definitely not something you want to do
with a restore.

poc



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