How to use cp to copy only certain filetypes?

[Flash]

I can't answer your questions. The only way to find out is to try it. As a test case, use rsync to back up a (small) directory.
I'm pretty sure there is at least one recent thread in the forum about using rsync to back things up. Within the last year for sure.

[Peterm321]

Does it have any benefits over cp ?

Does it work without worrrying about case sensitivity ?

I used to use rsync a fair bit but went back to cp and/or using a dual pane file manager as cp can do more or less anything I needed. The case sensitivity in Linux is in my view an annoyance in mitigation cp can be made case insensitive as it respects regular expressions and its range operator.

Case insensitve *.COM *.com copy :

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cd /
cd root
cd 16_BIT_Stuff
cp  *.[cC][Oo][mM]   /root/Storage