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Neil Bothwick wrote:

| Rsync may work, or it may complain that files have changed between
| building the list and copying them and you'd need to use -x to do the
| same as -l with tar. Either way, shut down as many services as possible
| during the copy, particularly anything that uses databases.

If you are using lvm you could also make a snapshot of your running
system (after stopping databases etc) and then start the services and
just grab stuff off of the snapshot.  That way you're getting a snapshot
in time as opposed to a very large window of data.
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