Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:03:21 +1300 (NZDT) From: Volker Kuhlmann <kuhlmav@elec.canterbury.ac.nz> Message-id: <200012210103.OAA06238@lupus.elec.canterbury.ac.nz> Subject: Re: [SLE] Back to SuSE! MORE ?

How can one cp things to another HD partition as a backup.

Although there may be versions of cp which alow this (e.g. GNU, butthere might also be the only ones), one doesn't take the risk and uses rsync -auH. With --delete if you like. Volker