Error message on cp
On 9/29/2011 9:24 PM, Craig White wrote:
On Thu, 2011-09-29 at 21:00 -0700, Knute Johnson wrote:
Anybody got any idea why I'm getting this error in my log?
/etc/cron.daily/system-backup:
cp: cannot create regular file
`/media/usbdisk/home/knute/.cpan/build/Mail-Sendmail-0.79-LupB80/blib/man3/Mail::Sendmail.3pm':
Invalid argument
The command that generates it is
cp -r /home/knute /someplace
and is run from a cron.daily script.
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seems like you can't copy a file with :: because the target filesystem
doesn't allow one/some of the characters in the filename. Not untypical
of vfat filesystems.
Craig
Thanks Craig, that's it. I'm copying to my USB backup drive and it is
formatted FAT.
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Knute Johnson
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