[ale] Best command to copy a mounted filesystem?

[David Corbin]

I want an image because I'm putting it on an identical disk....

Robert L. Harris wrote:

>You want an image of the filesystem/partition or the contents such with
>permissions, etc?  If you go with the image you may be sorry, what if
>you can't get an identicle replacement disk?  You'll loose out.
>
>Use tar or cpio.  If you don't want a tarball but want to copy /usr to
>/mnt/backups/usr then my prefered method is:
>
>"find /usr -mount -print | cpio -pdmu /mnt/backups/usr"
>
>
>Robert
>
>
>Thus spake David Corbin (dcorbin at machturtle.com):
>
>  
>
>>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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