Author: Lisi Date: To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List Subject: [Hampshire] cp error
On my own box, Tux now running Lenny, previously Etch, I have for some time
backed up (successfully) from the command line with:
# cp -Rpu /home/. /backup
where a separate HDD, which is formatted into a single partition, is mounted
on /backup. /home is also on a separate HDD, formatted as a single
partition.
I have just set up what I thought was the same set-up on my husband's box,
Dozy. The only easily identifiable differences are that /Backup on Dozy is
on a separate HDD, but on a partition on it, rather than the whole drive
formatted as one partition. Dozy's /home is also on a partition on a HDD
with several partitions on it.
The original cp went fine. but when I tried to run
# cp -Rpu /home/. /Backup
I was being asked file by file whether I wished to overwrite it, e.g.:
