On Mon, Feb 06, 2012 at 08:21:40AM +0100, Daniel Müller wrote: > Don' t you run your bricks in replication mode? So you do not have to copy > anything by hand or batch. That's not what I mean. There are times when I need to make a one-off copy of a subset of the files (say one subdirectory of a volume), e.g. for archival purposes.