I tried to copy most of my disk from my internal HD to an external Firewire using the Finder in X. It seemed to be slow, slowing down the system too, and error prone on files with special characters in their names. So I went and did the following:
[Editor's note: I haven't used cpio, and I'm not sure what it may or may not do with files which contain resource forks.]
- Open up Terminal
- Change into the directory you want to copy:
cd /dir/to/copy/from
- Execute this command:
find . -print | cpio /place/where/you/want/to/copy
[Editor's note: I haven't used cpio, and I'm not sure what it may or may not do with files which contain resource forks.]
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