The command will copy the entire contents of / to the directory /mnt/device-a/.
You will probably want to exclude a few directories though, as it stands it would also copy the contents of /dev/ and /mnt. Especially the latter could potentially cause a loop because you are writing to a subdirectory of /mnt.
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