[Ma-linux] Re: [Novalug] Having problems copying data using cp over nfs

[Jay Hart]

Didn't work, still same number of files copied.

I wonder if I am having problems trying to copy files, because they are "open".

Jay

> try
> cp -pR
>
> Jay Hart wrote:
>> I am in the process of standing up my NAS server.  I am trying to copy off
>> all
>> my users Maildir directories to the NAS box as a file backup.
>>
>> So, my account on the box, has 93MB of data in the Maildir folder, in 160
>> subfolders and includes 3217 files. (reported by fish)
>>
>> What I have managed to copy over is 7.3MB of data, in 160 folders, and 553
>> files were copied over.
>>
>> I used the following command:
>>
>> cp -r /home/jhart/Maildir/* /mntpoint/email/home/jhart/Maildir
>>
>> I figured this would recursively copy all files under the Maildir dir to the
>> new location.
>>
>> Why didn't all files get copied over? What did I do wrong? What would work?
>>
>> TIA,
>>
>> Jay Hart
>>
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