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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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