Originally to: JAMIE RISK

* An ongoing debate between Jamie Risk and All rages on ...

 JR: > How do I copy an entire file system, symlinks and all, to a
 JR: > temporarily mounted partition? (what are the pertinent 'cp' switches?)
 JR: > I've got an extra harddrive (&PC) and I want to mirror my original
 JR: > system with as little work as possible.

I use cp for backups as "cp -av /dir1/ /mnt/backup", etc. Just skip /proc <g>

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