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I am switching boxes and I want to backup the current box. &nbsp;I thought to scp -r &nbsp;the root of the current box to a directory on another box. &nbsp;It seems that trying to copy /dev yields an infinite loop. &nbsp;Clearly /dev is a little special. &nbsp;But a single command to copy the box files is desireable. &nbsp;Please advise.
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I am switching boxes and I want to backup the current box.  I thought to scp -r  the root of the current box to a directory on another box.  It seems that trying to copy /dev yields an infinite loop.  Clearly /dev is a little special.  But a single command to copy the box files is desireable.  Please advise.

backing up an openbsd system

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