[svlug] Reminder: SVLUG mailing list server failure risk, gap in backups

[JC Lawrence]

On 30 Dec 2014, at 11:27, Mark - Syminet <mark at syminet.com> wrote:
> On Dec 30, 2014, at 11:49 AM, JC Lawrence <claw at kanga.nu> wrote:
> 
>> If you'll accept an SSH key, I'll setup an rsnapshot cronjob to backup whatever you want.
> 
> ...but how are you going to run run dd and/or rsync on /dev 
> (and:or /proc for that matter), unless root. 

Why would I or Rick or anyone care about backing up /dev and /proc?  If there are any custom /dev entries, then good practice says that he has the scripts (which I can backup) already in place to recreate them as needed (and I trust Rick for such best-practice things).  And /proc is similar: if he has any runtime updates to /proc values, he'll have scripts for those as well and I can backup those too.

But none of that is currently relevant.  The request was to backup the mailing lists, archives, etc and that doesn't include /dev or /proc.

-- JCL