I also have another idea: It looks for me, the user wants to get the data on an notebook with NVME and later copy it to a Windows 2019.
If so, I personally would do it in naother way using a lifesystem. I would boot a live system and format the NVME with ext4. As the source and the target ist NTFS/GPT related, one need not care of ownerships, hard- and softlinks and so on. Just copy files. Then, after transfer, boot a linux-lifesystem on the Windows 2019 hardware, mount the target (using ntfs-3g or mount, dependent of the filesystem) and then rsync the data to the Windows 2019 harddrive. Doing so, there should be no problems with MFT or similar. -------------------- Another idea, which came in my mind, to pack the whole source folder into one single file (i.e. with tar or 7z or zip whatever) and then transfer this to the NVME. Yes, I know, transferring very large files is a very bad idea, because the danger loosing bits during transfer is very high. It is just another possible solution. Personally I would prefer the above solution. However, this solution may be not acceptable, because the Windows 2019 may not be allowed to shutdown, because it is i.e. a 24/7-Server, which MUST be always available (On the other hand: if so, then I would expect a mirror server available, which is in cold stand by and then copy first to this, then to the other). -------------------- Just 2 ideas coming into my mind, maybe it helps. Best regards Hans
