m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: >> I want to backup my current CentOS-7.2 system to another drive. >> Is it safe to copy the system while it is running? >> Eg by >> mount /dev/sdb5 /mnt >> rsync -HPaxvz /. /mnt/ >> I've found contradictory advice on the web. > > Yes. When we're cloning a system, such as a compute node in a cluster, or > rsync upgrading, we > rsync -HPavxz /. newmachine:/new/. > rsync -HPavxz /boot/. newmachine:/boot//new/. Thanks very much to you, and all who responded to my query. -- Timothy Murphy gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin