On 2022-02-04 03:26, Russell VT wrote:
This is "a religious" question, as there are many different "sworn" ways to
do it.
The "old reliable" method, if you have both filesystems available... at
least off the top of my head...
cd / ; tar -cvf - / | (cd /path/to/other/disk ; tar -xvfp -)
$ tar -c -C /from/ -f - | ssh host tar -x -C /to/ -f -
where compression arguments e.g. -J are advisable if over a WAN, "ssh
host" is optional, and -v really slows things down, especially if used
on both sides or over a WAN.
For Cygwin, --exclude /cygdrive, /dev, /proc, /tmp, /var/log and maybe
some others, so better to add to an --exclude-from FILE:
$ info tar exclude
and don't forget exclusions must omit /from/ and /to/ paths but may
include shell wildcard patterns "*", "?", "[...]", "[!...]", and
[?*+@!](...|...) if shopt extglob enabled:
$ info bash pattern
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