Rsync
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From: https://superuser.com/questions/307541/copy-entire-file-system-hierarchy-from-one-drive-to-another
rsync -avxHAWX --numeric-ids --progress / mnt/ > ~/rsync.out
rsync -avz -e "ssh -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null" --progress /root/bigfile.txt 198.211.117.129:/root/
The options are:
-a : all files, with permissions, etc.. -v : verbose, mention files -x : stay on one file system -H : preserve hard links (not included with -a) -A : preserve ACLs/permissions (not included with -a) -X : preserve extended attributes (not included with -a) -W : whole files
