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The only one you need is -a. -avx if you want verbose and compression.
I just looked it up and - x means one filesystem. But does - v give you a progress bar or just a lost of stuff copied?
IIRC rsync also treats the trailing slash in a special manner that I always have to look up.
The trailing slash is just following cp's own special treatment
--progress=info2 could be a bit shorter imo