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Re: Backup problem using "cp"

From	Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Backup problem using "cp"
Date	2018-05-07 15:10 +0200
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On 05/07/2018 07:01 AM, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Richard Owlett wrote:
>> richard@debian-jan13:~$ stat / | fgrep Device
>> Device: 80eh/2062d      Inode: 2           Links: 22
>> richard@debian-jan13:~$ stat /media | fgrep Device
>> Device: 80eh/2062d      Inode: 131073      Links: 5
> 
> "/media" was not the directory to examine.
> You need to examine the directory which you gave as second argument to cp.
> In your initial post of this thread the cp command is quoted as
> 
>    cp -ax /  "/media/richard/MISC
>    backups/dev_sda14/"
> 
> (Dunno whether the line break in that mail is significant.)

No the _apparent_ line break was an artifact of email quoting process.
I can't rerun the diagnostic at the moment - hardware fully occupied 
with testing my proposed workaround, which works so far but progress 
resembles molasses running uphill on Pluto in winter ;/


> 
> 
>> I gather that "cp" is then an inappropriate tool.
> 
> That's not decided yet.
> 
> If your cp target directory had a different device number, then cp option -x
> did not what it is supposed to do.
> 
> But if your target directory was not the mount point of the USB disk and
> not inside the filesystem of the USB disk, then you made a mistake by
> giving that directory as target.

Understood.

> 
> 
>> "tar" is inappropriate for my preferences - I was attempting to use "cp" as
>> there would be multiple files &/or directories as input *and* output.
> 
> You could use multiple tar commands.
> (I doubt that you can talk cp into addressing more than one target.)

Communication confusion.
My goal was to copy root and its sub-directory to a directory on another 
physical device.

> 
> 
> Have a nice day :)
> 
> Thomas
> 
>

Thread

Backup problem using "cp" Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-05-06 16:30 +0200
  Re: Backup problem using "cp" "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2018-05-06 16:40 +0200
    Re: Backup problem using "cp" Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-05-06 16:50 +0200
      Re: Backup problem using "cp" "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2018-05-06 17:20 +0200
        Re: Backup problem using "cp" Cindy-Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> - 2018-05-06 17:30 +0200
        Re: Backup problem using "cp" Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-05-07 13:40 +0200
          Re: Backup problem using "cp" "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2018-05-07 14:10 +0200
            Re: Backup problem using "cp" Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-05-07 15:10 +0200
              Re: Backup problem using "cp" "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2018-05-07 15:30 +0200
                Re: Backup problem using "cp" Bob Weber <bobrweber@gmail.com> - 2018-05-07 16:00 +0200
                Re: Backup problem using "cp" Dan Norton <dnorton@mindspring.com> - 2018-05-07 16:50 +0200
                Re: Backup problem using "cp" Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-05-07 16:10 +0200
                Re: Backup problem using "cp" David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-05-08 03:10 +0200
              Re: Backup problem using "cp" Kushal Kumaran <kushal@locationd.net> - 2018-05-07 19:20 +0200
                Re: Backup problem using "cp" Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com> - 2018-05-07 20:00 +0200
            Running of rrequested tests - [was Re: Backup problem using "cp"] Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-05-08 17:20 +0200
              Re: Running of rrequested tests - [was Backup problem using "cp"] "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2018-05-08 17:50 +0200
                Re: Running of rrequested tests - [was Backup problem using "cp"] Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-05-08 19:40 +0200
                Re: Running of rrequested tests - [was Backup problem using "cp"] "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2018-05-08 22:30 +0200
                Re: Running of rrequested tests - [was Backup problem using "cp"] Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-05-09 14:00 +0200
                Re: Running of rrequested tests - [was Backup problem using "cp"] "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2018-05-09 15:00 +0200
              Re: Running of rrequested tests - [was Re: Backup problem using "cp"] The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2018-05-08 17:50 +0200
                Re: Running of rrequested tests - [was Re: Backup problem using "cp"] Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-05-08 19:50 +0200
                Re: Running of rrequested tests - [was Re: Backup problem using "cp"] The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2018-05-09 04:50 +0200
                Re: Running of rrequested tests - [was Re: Backup problem using "cp"] Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-05-09 14:30 +0200
                Re: Running of rrequested tests - [was Re: Backup problem using "cp"] The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2018-05-09 14:50 +0200
                Re: Running of rrequested tests - [was Re: Backup problem using "cp"] Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz> - 2018-05-09 15:00 +0200
                Re: Running of rrequested tests - [was Re: Backup problem using "cp"] David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-05-09 22:30 +0200
                Re: Running of rrequested tests - [was Re: Backup problem using "cp"] Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2018-05-09 22:40 +0200
                Re: Running of rrequested tests - [was Re: Backup problem using "cp"] David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-05-10 16:00 +0200
                Re: Running of rrequested tests - [was Re: Backup problem using "cp"] The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2018-05-10 05:00 +0200
                Re: Running of rrequested tests - [was Re: Backup problem using "cp"] David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-05-10 16:20 +0200
                Re: Running of rrequested tests - [was Re: Backup problem using "cp"] David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-05-08 21:50 +0200
          Re: Backup problem using "cp" Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2018-05-07 14:10 +0200
            Re: Backup problem using "cp" Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-05-07 15:00 +0200
              Re: Backup problem using "cp" Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2018-05-07 15:20 +0200
              Re: Backup problem using "cp" Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2018-05-07 15:30 +0200
                Re: Backup problem using "cp" "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2018-05-07 16:00 +0200
                Re: Backup problem using "cp" Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-05-07 16:20 +0200
                Re: Backup problem using "cp" David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-05-08 03:20 +0200
                Re: Backup problem using "cp" Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-05-07 16:10 +0200
          Re: Backup problem using "cp" David Griffith <dave@661.org> - 2018-05-07 15:00 +0200
            Re: Backup problem using "cp" Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-05-07 15:50 +0200
            Re: Backup problem using "cp" Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz> - 2018-05-07 16:00 +0200
              Re: Backup problem using "cp" Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-05-07 16:40 +0200
          Re: Backup problem using "cp" Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@surfnaked.ca> - 2018-05-07 20:30 +0200
          Re: Backup problem using "cp" David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-05-08 03:00 +0200
  Re: Backup problem using "cp" Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2018-05-06 16:50 +0200
  Re: Backup problem using "cp" Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2018-05-06 17:40 +0200
    Re: Backup problem using "cp" Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-05-06 21:00 +0200
      Re: Backup problem using "cp" David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-05-07 00:00 +0200
      Re: Backup problem using "cp" Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2018-05-10 10:30 +0200
        Re: Running of rrequested tests - [was Backup problem using "cp"] "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2018-05-10 11:30 +0200
        Re: Backup problem using "cp" David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-05-10 15:40 +0200
  SUCCESS!!!! - was {Re: Backup problem using "cp"} Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-05-11 15:10 +0200
    Re: SUCCESS!!!! - was {Re: Backup problem using "cp"} <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2018-05-11 15:20 +0200
      Re: SUCCESS!!!! - was {Re: Backup problem using "cp"} Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-05-11 15:30 +0200
        Re: SUCCESS!!!! - was {Re: Backup problem using "cp"} <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2018-05-11 17:30 +0200
        Re: SUCCESS!!!! - was {Re: Backup problem using "cp"} Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2018-05-11 17:40 +0200
          Re: SUCCESS!!!! - was {Re: Backup problem using "cp"} Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-05-11 19:30 +0200
          Re: SUCCESS!!!! - was {Re: Backup problem using "cp"} Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-05-11 19:50 +0200
            Re: SUCCESS!!!! - was {Re: Backup problem using "cp"} Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-05-11 22:30 +0200
    Re: SUCCESS!!!! - was {Re: Backup problem using "cp"} Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2018-05-11 16:50 +0200
      Re: SUCCESS!!!! - was {Re: Backup problem using "cp"} Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-05-11 20:00 +0200
        Re: SUCCESS!!!! - was {Re: Backup problem using "cp"} Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2018-05-11 21:50 +0200
          Re: SUCCESS!!!! - was {Re: Backup problem using "cp"} Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-05-11 22:40 +0200
    Re: SUCCESS!!!! - was {Re: Backup problem using "cp"} David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-05-11 17:30 +0200

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