[wplug] cp Maildir to new machine

Scott F. Kiesling kiesling+ at pitt.edu
Mon Jan 3 13:05:15 EST 2005


On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 12:48:22PM -0500, Bill Moran wrote:
> 
> Can you give a little more detail on what is going wrong?
> 
> I use tar and cp to manipulate (and back up) my Maildir all the
> time.  I just tested it and all files were copied.
> 
> cp -Rp /path/to/Maildir /tmp/.
> 
> Worked fine.

It works for me to issue the same commands. Perhaps the
issue is that the drive I am trying to write to is vfat?

Here's the error:

cp: cannot create regular file '/path/file:2,RS': Invalid
argument

SFK


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