[rdiff-backup-users] Duplicate mirror? [was Re: workaround for "[Errno 91] File name too long..."?]

[Morgan Read]

On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 08:37 -0400, Andrew Ferguson wrote:
> Morgan Read wrote:
> > Hello list
...
> > Also, it may be a very naive question but why, when there are only two
...
Well, like I said:-)
> Morgan,
> 
> It looks like you are using rdiff-backup to backup another rdiff-backup
> repository. Are you sure this is what you want to do? That is not
> something usually done.
Perhaps I should explain my objective - duplicating a mirror.  I used
"cp -r", but this threw some exceptions like so
cp: cannot create special file
`BU2/home/morgan/.bittorrent/data/ui_socket.lnk': Invalid argument

After looking through the man page I thought I should heed the warnings
about not writing a mirror with anything but rdiff, so backed it up
again assuming the first incremental I did to the new mirror from source
would sink the extra rdiff-backup-data directory, and the rest is
history...

So, is there a recommended way to duplicate a (fresh) mirror to avoid
running rdiff-backup to the same media twice?

Many thanks,
M.
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