Re: [Hampshire] Strange overflow messages when backing up

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Author: Keith Edmunds
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To: hampshire
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Strange overflow messages when backing up
On Fri, 2 Nov 2007 20:04:50 +0000, hantslug@??? said:

> cp -Rpu /home/. /backup
>
> I got a lot of overflow errors. (Sorry, I tried, but did not succeed
> capturing them. :-( )


Lisi, try:

cp -Rpu /home/. /backup > /tmp/errors.txt 2>&1

That should capture any error to a file, which you could then post (part
of) here.

Keith

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