Comment 77 for bug 225361
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| Phillip Susi (psusi) wrote Re: [Bug 225361] Re: .gvfs can't be stat'd by root causing backup tools to fail | #77 |
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On 3/6/2013 10:40 AM, Jochen Fahrner wrote:
> I do a regularly backup of '/' and that includes /run. Why should I
> never do this?
Because /run is a tmpfs to contain only ephemeral runtime information.
If you back it up, you are backing up useless junk that won't even be
seen after the restore and just waste disk space since the tmpfs will be
mounted over it at boot. Your backups should use --one-file-system to
make sure they stay out of things like /run, /proc, /sys, /dev.