Cp is not a great utility to use in a backup scheme. As used in this script it will not preserve resource forks, attributes, or even the creation/modification/access times of the files. There are many utilities available on MacOS that with the appropriate options do proper backups, including ditto, tar, rsync, and disk utility. Tar and rsync also do incremental backups, which can save time.

- Ronald Florence

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