Rsync

Copy content preserving attributes of  /foo to  /bar : 
 rsync -aXHA --info=progress2 --stats /foo/ /bar 
 To exclude specific paths from  /foo , for example:   --exclude=/.snapshots --exclude=/.swap 
 To use  .rsync-filter files as exclude info use -F flag. For example: 
 - /.snapshots/
- /.swap/