Thread: Backup/Upgrade of Harddisk

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Old 14-02-2008, 08:44 PM
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The command
Code:
cp -a
will do the same, but with rsync you have some advantages like if for some reason you cp command fail you'll have no way to continue where it stopped but will have to start it again, with rsync it will start where it stopped.
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