On Fri 11 May 2018 at 07:59:30 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: > On 05/06/2018 09:22 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: > >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 problem turned out to be that > "....local/share/Trash/expunged/73080846/grub2..." appeared under > *BOTH* > /home/richard and the root directory.
Evidence of that? > I successfully ran: > >root@debian-jan13:/home/richard# updatedb > >root@debian-jan13:/home/richard# locate TRASH But locate TRASH only searches for TRASH, not Trash. You need to either locate -i or give the appropriate case. > >root@debian-jan13:/home/richard# cp -ax / > >/media/richard/MISC-backups/dev_sda14/ > >root@debian-jan13:/home/richard# Cheers, David.
