[londonperl] A difficult filesystem

[Dirk Koopman]

Dirk Koopman wrote:
> 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
> 

dang and drat

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