One of my all time favourites for copying whole directories is cpio, as in
cd /old/source/ && find . | cpio -pdmv /new/destination
Firstly you have full and easy control of what will be found via the plethora of find options and secondly the tool cpio is found on nearly every *NIX System I have encountered so far.
One of my all time favourites for copying whole directories is cpio, as in
cd /old/source/ && find . | cpio -pdmv /new/destination
Firstly you have full and easy control of what will be found via the plethora of find options and secondly the tool cpio is found on nearly every *NIX System I have encountered so far.