rsync is bad

[Les Mikesell]

Robert Holtzman wrote:
> On Sat, 7 Jun 2008, Karl Larsen wrote:
> 
>>    OK. How many times have you used rsync to copy a whole system to
> "> another partition and then had it work properly?
> 
> Karl, if you had bothered to read "man rsync" you would have seen, part 
> way down:
> 
> "Rsync copies files either to or from a remote host, or locally on the 
> current host....."
> 
> This is not the same as copying a system.
>  

On unix-like systems, everything is a file.  There's not much magic 
except when booting.

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