Sockets in /dev: what are they? how to recreate them?

[Bill Bailey]

You Mention that you are backing up "/" to a spare disk with "apio" or
something similar... Why don't you just use "dump" ?????? I us it to dump
an entire server system by piping the output from dump to comnpress. I
then tar the files together and ftp them to the IBM mainframe... but
that's another story.

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