[wplug] cp Maildir to new machine

[Bill Moran]

"Scott F. Kiesling" <kiesling+ at pitt.edu> wrote:

> 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?

Could be.  I don't think vfat can handle filenames like that,
but I'm not sure.

If that's the case, you should be able to tar everything up into
a tarfile with a name that vfat can handle, then untar it on
the new system.

> Here's the error:
> 
> cp: cannot create regular file '/path/file:2,RS': Invalid
> argument

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