[ale] Best command to copy a mounted filesystem?

[James P. Kinney III]

rsync is the tool you are looking for.

On Sun, 2003-04-13 at 07:15, David Corbin wrote:
> I want to copy (as in "mirror") a mounted file system for the purposes 
> of backup.   I can think of a handful of approaches (my first, dd, 
> doesn't seem to work). What's the best way to do this.  Note: I'm not 
> talking about make a .tar file or anything of the sort.   I want to 
> duplicate the filesystem.  True mirroring is not an an acceptable solution.
> 
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