In news:Xns953AD15B1D605jbuserspc9org@205.200.16.73, Jem Berkes bitched
and moaned:
>> GNU tar does. I've done complete network transfers of disk contents
>> using tar and netcat.
>
> Aren't there also some other things that could be happening with
> /proc and /dev, like dynamic content creation? I can't remember the
> details but I thought I'd throw that out there.

tar cannot read the entire /proc tree, but that is mostly the pid's