Copy command only worked partially...

I'm doing a bit of a postmortem here, my iMac is at a repair shop, so this could just be bad hardware... but it seems I was let down by UNIX here, on my iMac G5 the Finder wouldn't stay up long enough to use, and I had already tried to copy my whole disk using:
asr -source /Volumes/PowerBook/ -target /Volumes/Boot
this worked for a while and ended with some errors...
Then I realized that I really only cared about the Users stuff so I tried
cp -Rp Users /Volumes/BigFireWireDisk/.
This worked without errors and fooled me into thinking I had everything... but if I dig down, I find that it only did a certain amount of layers and stopped. So alas, it didn't get some information that I would have wanted.
Should this have worked? Or was there a better way to do this? Oh yeah, another partition with a script backing it up all the time would have been good, but I didn't know that then.

What's a symbolic link? I'm looking for stuff down
inside my Address Book and iPhoto and such...
It is similar to an Alias. You create it from the terminal using "ln -s". I thought that since you were using cp, you may have also used ln at some point.
I don't know any other explanation, cp will copy everything. It is better than a Finder copy because it won't churn for an hour and then say "Sorry, I won't do it" or stop halfway though. Plus, if cp has any problems, it will print them out to the terminal.

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