[LON-CAPA-admin] backup question

[Mark Lucas]

Lars,

	The sockets are created dynamically when LON-CAPA is started.
They are used for the communication between machines.

	As for the tar command, it looks reasonable.

						Mark


On Wed, 1 Jan 2003, Lars Jensen wrote:

> As suggested here, before upgrading schubert to RH 7.3, I am creating
> tar back-ups of the directories /home and /etc. 
> 
> In backing up /home I do the following as root:
> 
> cd /
> tar -czpf home.tgz home
> 
> In doing this I got the following output:
> 
> tar: home/httpd/sockets/msudemol1: socket ignored
> tar: home/httpd/sockets/msua1: socket ignored
> tar: home/httpd/sockets/nscll1: socket ignored
> tar: home/httpd/sockets/msua4: socket ignored
> ....
> 
> 
> My questions are:
> 
> 1) Do I need to worry about this?
> 2) Did I use the right flags for my backup?
> 
> Happy New Year,
> Lars.
> 
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