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

[Marc MERLIN]

On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 11:40:28AM -0800, Rick Moen wrote:
> Mark - Syminet wrote:
> 
> > ...but how are you going to run run dd and/or rsync on /dev
> > (and:or /proc for that matter), unless root.
> 
> Please don't take this the wrong way, but I'm not seeing the relevance of
> /dev and /proc contents to SVLUG's backup needs on lists.svlug.org.

Especially since they are from an actual devfs 2.4 kernel.

If someone gets them to work in a recent system, I'll be impressed ;)

Marc
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