Copying /dev/* to another partition

[John Lawitzke]

>From article <109757 at linus.UUCP>, by rtidd at mwunix.mitre.org (Randall Tidd):
$ I am running SunOS 4.1 on a Sun 3/160.
$ 
$ I am trying to clone my root partition to a backup partition (just
$ root and subdirectories, but *not* other partitions such as /usr,
$ /home, etc).  I ran into a problem when trying to copy /dev; when I
$ try to cp /dev/sd0a (for example), it will try to read from the device
$ /dev/sd0a rather than copy the actual file /dev/sd0a.

Sounds like a job for cpio. Check out its man page.

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