[buug] Using "cp" to backup/clone

[Rick Moen]

begin Zeke Krahlin quotation:

> Way to go; thanks Rick! I figured there's already some utility out
> there for this, but I'm so newbie, I didn't even know where to look
> for it. (It is also very satisfying to create aliases and scripts,
> from the basic Linux commands I'm studying).

My standard list of the sysadmin's secret weapons:

sudo
screen
rsync
kibitz
cvs
find
netcat
enscript

If you play with those for a while, you'll find that they have hidden
virtues and become incredibly useful after a while, such that you'll
wonder what you did without them.  (Some take a while to warm to.  
You'll get lost in the manpage for GNU "find", for example.)

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