On 05/06/2018 10:38 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
Le 06/05/2018 à 16:22, Richard Owlett a écrit :
I'm attempting to backup current partition to a USB connected 1 TB
drive.
I get:
root@debian-jan13:/home/richard# cp -ax / "/media/richard/MISC
backups/dev_sda14/"
cp: cannot stat '/media/richard/MISC
backups/dev_sda14/home/richard/.local/share/Trash/expunged/73080846/grub2
problem-2018-02-13/grub2 problem-2018-02-13/grub2
problem-2018-02-13/grub2 problem-2018-02-13/grub2
problem-2....018-02-13/grub2 problem-2018-02-13': File name too long
The same pattern "grub2 problem-2018-02-13" seems to be repeated
endlessly in the path. Could there be a loop ?
Obviously ;/
I thought I had broken the loop by specifying -x.