[Gllug] scp whole drive with out copying /proc/kcore?

[Steve Nicholson]

> from the man pages:
> 	-x, --one-file-system
>               stay on this file system
>
> but, i'd recommend that you look into using tar/cpio, as they
> provide far more options on how and what to copy.
> used in conjunction with '-f -' of tar you can pipe thru an
> ssh connection.

Thanks Vincent.
Will have a look at them.

Is rsync ok to use for copying MySQL database files for backing up to
another server?  I guess you need to flush the tables first?

Steve.


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