[buug] disk clone

[Rick Moen]

Quoting f.johan.beisser (jan at caustic.org):

> use dump and restore, that's about the only way to do it in any UNIX OS,
> short of reinstalling.

rsync is pretty comprehensive, too.  But he might try one of the tools
that copy entire filesystems without getting knee-deep in their
semantics, such as Partimage.  

> you may want to consider using tar, but that won't preserve device files
> (i believe..). 

Confirmed.

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