Fwd: [Novalug] Having problems copying data using cp over nfs

[Ben Creitz]

> > 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?

'cp -r' will pick up hidden files, but the glob (*) in 'cp -r
/home/jhart/Maildir/*' will not.  So you are missing out on whatever
hidden files and directories are in the top level of Maildir.  The
simplest thing to do would be:

  cp -r /home/jhart/Maildir/ /mntpoint/email/home/jhart/

Notice the lack of a * there... you are literally pulling the dir and
everything in it.  To preseve perms and timestamps use 'cp -a' instead
of 'cp -r'.

Also make sure we aren't overlooking something completely different,
like the NAS being out of disk space or something.

Ben