[londonperl] A difficult filesystem

[Dirk Koopman]

Andy Armstrong wrote:

> To clarify - the rsync based backup runs fine. What fails is using rsync 
> to copy the /whole/ filesystem. I was only using rsync to do that 
> because I've had success with it in the past. I don't need a remote 
> copy, both drives in the same machine.

is cp -a too simplistic, failing that there is always that old standby

find / ! -name newdisc | cpio -pduvm /newdisk