In my MediaSonic Probox the backup1 drive is still formatted with xfs. Since
XFS throws an error now and then requiring me to umount the drive, run
xfs_repair, and remount it I want to replace the filesystem with ext4.

Currently, the drive holds 644GB. When I've tried to `cp -R /media/bkup1' to
a 1TB USB flash drive it's taken hours and fails when the cp command hits
the spot(s) causing the errors.

One approach I could use is to copy each of the 8 subdirectories one at a
time. Is there a better way to copy off the files so I can replace the
filesystem and re-copy the files back to it?

TIA,

Rich

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