Thank You for Your time and answer, Mike: > Depending on how stable you need the destination file system, but I often do: > > find . -depth | cpio -pdmv /path/to/dest > > Followed up by an rsync. The cpio will leave partial files in place, > so the next time through it will skip that, but the rsync will fix it > up. Interesting thing! Also I want to thank Dirk here - for his easy to accomplish answer.