On Sat, 06 Jan 2007 08:35:59 +0100, Claus Fischer
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
7. There needs to be a command to copy all data
Between cp, tar, rsync & friends there are dozens
of variations how to copy over the files of a
running system to another location, but none is
perfect:
- leave out lost+found
- leave out /proc, /sys, the automatic /dev
- copy all "real" files
- copy the /dev on harddisk under the mounted devfs
(using mount -bind or so)
There is really need for a good program that does it;
IMHO that program should be cp.
Here's how I do it:
mkdir 1 2
mount -o ro /dev/hda1 1 # Despite it's already mounted somewhere
mount /dev/hdb1 2
cp -avx --preserve=all 1/* 2 # rsync will do as well
umount 2
umount 1
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