I don't know the correct terminology, and that's probably the reason I can't find a related question here on Superuser.
I have a backup script that syncs my linux server to a remote location. My system isn't very large so it makes sense to backup everything. However, some paths make no sense to backup like /proc/*.
So I exclude it from the process:
rsync -avzh -e "ssh -p 1234" --exclude="/proc" --exclude="/tmp" /
But I guess there are more paths like that in linux. Is there a list somewhere with all linux paths with "virtual" files?
/proc
,/dev
, and you most likely also want to exclude/tmp
and/boot