[LON-CAPA-admin] backup question

[Gerd Kortemeyer]

In fact, the sockets should definitely NOT be backed up as anything, or
LON-CAPA will not be able to dynamically create them again when needed.

Mark Lucas wrote:

> 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.
> >
> > --
> > Lars Jensen, TMCC/Vista B200, 7000 Dandini Blvd, Reno NV 89512-3999.
> > Internet: <jensen at physics.unr.edu>, http://www.scsr.nevada.edu/~jensen
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> >
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